Small Business

When 29-year-old YouTube star Meghan Tonjes launched a podcast with crowd-funding site Patreon a year ago, it was one of dozens of things the singer-songwriter was doing to grind out a living online.

Netflix is getting jeered for excluding the employees in its DVD-by-rental service from a recently introduced benefit that gives up to a year of unpaid leave to most of its workers after the birth or adoption of a baby.

Google is creating a new company to oversee its highly lucrative Internet business and a growing flock of other ventures, including some — like building self-driving cars and researching ways to prolong human life — that are known more for their ambition than for turning an immediate profit.

Nintendo has named a long-serving executive as president following the death in July of Satoru Iwata.

Microsoft has named Brad Smith as its new president and chief legal officer, effective immediately.

Amazon says it is offering one-hour delivery of thousands of basic products to its Prime customers in Manhattan.

President Barack Obama is expanding his push for increased manufacturing in the United States by directing federal money toward new technologies, apprenticeship programs and competitions designed to assist small manufacturers.

Amazon's trademark smile icon is becoming more of a grimace.

It might be a blue Christmas for Amazon.

Microsoft Executive Vice President Stephen Elop sent employees of the company's devices business a memo detailing its job cut plans.

Many workers will soon find that their health insurance costs more and covers less next year, and that employers have taken a sharper interest in their well-being.

Get ready for Start-Up Nation. FBN’s Liz Claman is reporting live Wednesday from Greylock Partners,

Morgan Stanley's chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, is leaving the New York investment bank for the same job at Google Inc.

PayPal is splitting from EBay Inc. and will become a separate and publicly traded company next year.

The Biggest Little City in the World is about to get a new neighbor: the biggest lithium battery factory in the world that Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval asserted will create more than 22,000 new jobs and pump $100 billion into the state's economy over the next 20 years.

Facebook marketing executive Mike Hoefflinger said on Wednesday that Facebook Pages will be available on smartphones later in 2012.

Massachusetts’ Restaurant and Business Alliance comes out against a bill that would allow grocery chain Wegmans to serve alcoholic beverages on-premises at its Northborough location, in addition to selling bottles to go.

We’re in the throes of tax season, and IRS- and tax-related scams are going into overdrive.

Nothing sends small business owners into nail-biting mode than news that they’re being audited.  Even if you have all your ducks in order and can defend your deductions and support your income, the process is still time-consuming, costly and nerve wracking.

We all experience complications that weren't part of the plan. Some are predictable; others come out of nowhere. Aside from lying awake at night stressing out over all the things that can go wrong, there are strategies we can learn from the lead-up to the big game that will help us face our own extreme conditions