Are you looking to get some laundry done on the cheap or, even better yet, free? It turns out a security flaw in a popular internet-connected laundry machine vendor could allow anyone to avoid paying ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 1, 2008, and has been updated. It was excerpted from our Coin-Operated Laundry start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore.

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.