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Readers respond to our cover story about Etsy founder Rob Kalin, a feature about spying on the competition, and Jason Fried's column about running a flat company. The World of Etsy Our cover story about Etsy founder and CEO Rob Kalin [" Rob's World ," April ] sparked a lively online debate

Take a look at this map of the U.S. at night.

Pro hockey player's family donates his brain to Boston University scientists doing research on degenerative brain condition

Christy Liu is the cofounder of travel site Wanderfly, "We help people figure out where they can go and what they can do based on their budgets." Liu, and Wanderfly's three other entrepreneurial cofounders, work to make travel planning more fun--and to succeed on their own strengths. [twistage bd48aabb0a382] *In Partnership with

1. Attention Google --this is what happens when you anger the record labels: Limewire and its former CEO Mark Gorton have agreed to pay $105 million to close a legal suit alleging Limewire encouraged users to share pirated music.

A new set of $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a range of mobile phone applications in an effort to improve global health. The latest projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could turn smartphones into superphones that are part doctor, part secretary, part Orkin man. The Gates' Grand Challenges Exploration has previously given $100,000 grants to early-stage research focused on urgent health problems and come up with some amazing ideas for treatment .

Have you ever had the experience of buying a deal from Groupon or LivingSocial, getting to the merchant (a restaurant, let's say), and awkwardly giving the server a crumpled piece of paper to prove that you deserve $20 worth of food for just $10?

A new lawsuit could shed some light. Plus, bringing off-shore insurance tactics to the U.S., and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs

Passion alone is typically what drives a founder to get a new business off the ground.

Dorfman Jewelers is presenting a collection of 15 rare color diamonds, including blue, pink, yellow, and green, at its store on Newbury Street in Boston on May 11 and 12. The event is designed to showcase some of the earth’s rarest treasures, and experts will be on hand to inform ...

A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes.

Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

Ralph Lauren’s cars caused a stir in the art world six years ago when they were displayed at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Critics questioned whether automobiles, even ones as prized as Lauren’s, belonged among the museum’s collections of sculptures, antiquities, Monets, and Old Masters; naysayers found dubious the very ...

Harvard Innovation Center's new director, Gordon Jones, wants to broaden the definition of entrepreneurialism to include not just tech startups, but all fields: lawyers, business people, Kennedy School bureaucrats-in-training, computer scientists, and so on. Today, Harvard announced that it had chosen Gordon Jones to head up its forthcoming Harvard Innovation Center.

With huge budgets and entire departments dedicated to social media, big business has conceived of some very innovative ways to use social media. Here are some lessons that small business can take away from these campaigns