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- Readers share some advice for Starbucks
- Readers share some advice for StarbucksCoffee is about relationships . . .I know it sounds old fashioned, but I know in blue-collar America my own experiences, many relationships still revolve around the all-mighty coffee pot. From the tendency to congregate in the kitchen with friends after a meal, to...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Readers share some advice for Starbucks
- After I wrote about Starbucks' internal announcement that it is launching a Digital Ventures business, I received a good deal of mail from readers about the company. Amazingly, even though Starbucks is a high-profile company, only a couple business publications picked up on the story of a new division being...
- Tags: Customer, Starbucks Corp., Store, Gold Card, Food & Beverage, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Wireless LANs, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-04-05
- Is Starbucks selling a wonder drug?
- Is Starbucks selling a wonder drug?more likely kool aidprobably the only true fact is [i]A Swedish study shows women who drink a lot of coffee having smaller breasts, and men who drink a lot larger ones.[/i].The rest of the 'findings' are most likely to be from studies sponsored by the...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, caffeine, Starbucks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Is Starbucks selling a wonder drug?
- Most of the positive impacts of coffee, then, are available with just a single morning coffee run. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Cup, Coffee, Beverage, Starbucks Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Starbucks launching Digital Ventures business
- Starbucks launching Digital Ventures businessMessage has been deleted.
- Tags: Digital Ventures, Starbucks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- Starbucks launching Digital Ventures business
- Starbucks is turning its eye to the digital world for part of its recovery strategy, according to an email Howard Schultz sent to partners on Friday. Shultz wrote that Stephen Gillett, who has been the company's CIO, will take on a new line of business, Digital Ventures, to "expand Starbucks...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rollout
- AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rolloutStarbucks sucks at WiFiEvery locally-owned, independent coffee shop that I visit offers FREE WiFi. Starbucks wants money.What a [bad] joke.
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Starbucks Corp., Starbucks Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wayport, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rollout
- AT&T said Friday that it has closed its Wayport acquisition, which allows it to build out its Wi-Fi network. In addition, the telecom giant said that it "is nearing completion" of its project to convert Starbucks locations to AT&T's Wi-Fi service. With Wayport, AT&T will have roughly...
- Tags: Wayport, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Big tech trade shows go the way of Starbucks lattes; Big SUVs
- January's big tech conferences--Macworld and CES--are downsizing and becoming vestiges of a bygone era. The latest: Belkin has bolted from Macworld in January joining Adobe. John Paczkowski at Digital Daily reports that registrations at Macworld are down 20 percent from a year ago and companies like Adobe...
- Tags: Belkin Corp., Consumer Electronics Show, Finance, Larry Dignan, Macworld, Managerial Accounting, Roi/Tco, Starbucks Corp., SUV
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Free AT&T WiFi access for iPhones (again)
- Free AT&T WiFi access for iPhones againI don't quite get it . . .I don't quite get it - I thought WiFi was just a radio in the phone. Is AT&T disabling the radio or what? Did you have to [b]pay[/b] to turn on the radio in the phone??That's just...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Starbuck, Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., radio
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Social design advice for StarbucksDaily Discussion StartersIt's interesting how easy it is for huge organizations to start new activities. I tried to start a current events newsletter to promote discussion in classrooms, for more than a year, and finally I gave up because it didn't get any traction. ...
- Tags: Social networking, Starbucks Corp., Social design advice, Social Design
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalismIt's happening everywhere.Nobody wants to be in business or make a transaction unless they make a killing, not just a reasonable profit.I have nothing against making money, but when your greed hurts others, like the Starbucks managers and employees, I think it's time...
- Tags: Retail, Blogging, Investment, Food & Beverage, Starbucks Corp., compassionate capitalism, capitalism, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism
- I've mentioned Dean's Beans a few times recently, probably because too many late nights of thesis-writing this summer have me fixated on caffeine. Regardless, Dean Cycon, the company owner and a local guy doing business a couple towns away from me here in central Massachusetts, offered to write a...
- Tags: Blog, Starbucks Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones
- AT&T just can’t commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free Wi-Fi at its nationwide AT&T WiFi HotSpots most notably in Starbucks stores. The carrier trumpets the free service...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless LANs, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- UPDATE: AT&T free WiFi access offer to iPhone owners is up again, NOT!
- We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi at AT&T locations, such as Starbucks. There doesn't seem to be any time limit on access either,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Now I know we're in a recession
- Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...
- Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Now I know we're in a recession
- OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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