27 years ago, Hoover offered two free international flights with any £100 purchase. Today, it’s remembered as the worst sales promotion in history.

FlyCleaners, an on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service with tens of thousands of paying customers, has left a swath of New Yorkers wondering what happened to their clothes.

At the age of 21, Akosua Asare developed alopecia, a condition where the immune system attacks hair follicles, leading to hair loss. Eventually, the damage was so severe that she was forced to shave her head completely bald. It was then that she discovered the transformative aesthetic power of wigs. In 2017, the young entrepreneur […]

In the wake of an algorithm-led video store apocalypse, Captain Video stays afloat by offering the human touch.

The reasons you pay a massive markup on a water bottle are more complex than you might think.

Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a viable part-time hustle?

Winning online sweepstakes is supposedly an act of pure luck — but some contestants claim to have it down to a science.

Costco has found immense success by prioritizing the interests of its customers and employees over those of its shareholders.

How a mystery man produced thousands of the ugliest counterfeit $1 bills ever made — and eluded federal agents for more than a decade.

How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head.

Nearly 50 years ago, one man ‘invented’ the modern smiley face. Then, another man halfway across the world made it into a multimillion-dollar cash cow.