Margaret Kilpatrick has always liked to have a clean and tidy home. When Kilpatrick battled breast cancer last year, that didn’t change. But the energy she was able to devote to housecleaning did.

David McKinnon, 28, thinks he has a franchise with a winning concept. With McKinnon’s Molly Maid, a woman wearing a frilly blue-and-white English maid uniform shows up at your house to clean your ...

Let’s face it. Many of us just don’t like cleaning house. In fact, your mantra for such a dirty word as housework might mirror the thoughts of late comedian Joan Rivers. “I hate housework!” Rivers ...

Like Airbnb, Uber has spawned a subset of startups that are looking to capitalize on the success of its premium, mobile, on-demand model and bring a little innovation to their chosen offline ...