Small Business

A few years ago, Jennifer Davagian Ensign was a master seamstress, running a custom interior design business in Sudbury. Today, she's the CEO of a Concord-based medical device company that holds patents in the U.S. and abroad, with the latest patent award coming from the Japanese Patent Office. She's not just running the company. She designed the chief product, Sephure. It's a suppository applicator for people with digestive conditions and other illness, from migraine headaches to malaria, and one she designed in her own kitchen after teaching herself the basics of silicon molding.

More owners of small businesses plan to boost capital spending amid a jump in sales, according to a key small-business association.

With a mini-computer in the hands of everyone who has a smartphone, mobile banking has been a...

Massachusetts small business owners received 2,397 loans worth more than $595 million from the U.S. Small Business Administration in fiscal year 2014, which ended September 30.

An Ashland company has created a spinoff to commercialize medical devices that use nanotechnology to treat patients with heart and kidney disease.

The certified public accounting firms of Ganley, P.C. of Framingham and Needham-based Bonanno, Savino & Davies, P.C. have merged and will operate under the new moniker of Bonanno, Savino, Davies & Ganley, P.C (BSDG), the company announced.

Women have made strides in raising venture capital in the last 15 years, but a wide gender gap persists, according to a Babson College study on the topic.

Worcester has potential to put itself on the map of the startup world, but there is some...

American Alarm and Communications of Arlington has completed its acquisition of Auburn-based Brothers Security Systems, the company said Thursday. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

The Massachusetts House on Tuesday advanced a bill, passed last month by the Senate, that would restrict indoor tanning for teenagers.