A skincare startup got bought for $190 million—then shut down. Here's what entrepreneurs can learn from the rise and fall of Apostrophe and how to stay focused on what really grows your business.

The poor apostrophe. As if things weren’t hard enough for the little mark already, social media and smartphones have made us even less likely to give it a little respect.

After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best efforts, he says, he lost the battle for proper ...

The apostrophe is the sign (’) used in writing to show that certain numbers or letters have been left out as in ‘don’t’ (do ...

Small yet mighty Apostrophe focuses on a few things only, and it does them well. This also has the side effect of the app being incredibly lightweight and efficient. It opens and shuts in seconds ...

More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours and D’Artagnans across America.

Slowly but surely, the apostrophe has been forgotten or purposely left behind in an increasing array of words. The very public feuding over public places and punctuation is here again — and it's ...