It all started with pay toilets. In 1955, James McNutt St. was working for his grandpa's business, Indianapolis-based Nik-O-Lok Co., making, selling and leasing coin-operated rest-room locks. But he ...

The coin-operated laundry business brings in $5 billion annual revenue in the U.S. alone. Although the use of laundromats may have declined over the past couple of decades, entrepreneurs are ...

Police are trying to tackle the wave of theft brought on by thieves targeting coin-operated laundry machines. Apartment complexes in Fargo have been hit hard, putting owners out hundreds of dollars.

There's a grainy, 28-second, vertically-shot Youtube video from 2014 of a guy named Charlie Pizza raving about a hot new startup called Washboard. The startup promised to mail customers $20 in ...