Starbucks opens first coffee shop in Russia
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Starbucks  opened its  first coffee shop in Russia on Thursday, two years after it won  a legal battle to protect the right to its brand in the  fast-growing Russian market.
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KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR, Russia  - Russia unveiled its  first all-new airliner since the fall of the Soviet Union on  Wednesday, hoping to curb dependence on oil and gas exports and  restore pride in its teetering aviation industry.
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Starbucks Corp. , the world's largest coffee shop chain, on Wednesday reported higher quarterly earnings due to a larger number of stores and increased customer traffic at established outlets.
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Starbucks Corp is testing $1 coffee and free refills in its Seattle outlets as the global gourmet coffee chain grapples with slower consumer spending and rising competition from fast-food rivals.
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McDonaldâs Corp. is set to launch coffee bars, moving into direct competition with global coffee chain Starbucks Corp., The Wall Street Journal reported.
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SEATTLE, Washington, Oct 14  - Coffee shop giant Starbucks said Thursday it was launching the first of its &quot;music bars&quot; where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs.
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A controversial Starbucks coffee shop in the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace at the heart of Beijing, has closed its doors, Beijing newspapers reported on Saturday.
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Starbucks is pushing its new digital music offering into Seattle and Austin in the next month.
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Until just a few weeks ago, any cafegoer looking for a slick, international, Starbucks-type experience in Tallinn had just two chains to choose from a ' Roberta s Coffee, a well-established Finnish brand, and ...
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Customers who buy a cup of joe using a Starbucks card will now receive 2 hours of free Wi-Fi at the ubiquitous coffee shop thanks to a new partnership with AT&T.
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Starbucks has upgraded its Wi-Fi offering from a tall to a venti, switching partners from T-Mobile USA to AT&amp;T in a deal that will mean free coffee-shop wireless for millions of U.S. broadband subscribers.The chain&#39;s network of hotspots, the best-known in the U.S., covers more than 7,000 company-owned stores. Users of AT&amp;T Broadband and U-verse DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services will get free access to the networks, and the carrier will soon extend benefits to AT&amp;T Wireless customers as well, according to a news release. AT&amp;T business customers with remote-access subscriptions will be able to buy unlimited, flat-rate access at any Starbucks location.AT&amp;T had 14.2 million lines of DSL in service at the end of last year. Its wireless arm has about 70 million subscribers. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany&#39;s Deutsche Telekom, said it had 28.7 million subscribers at year&#39;s end.Although 3G (third-generation) cellular networks are nearing typical wired broadband speeds, Wi-Fi hotspots in key locations such as airports, hotels and cafes remain an attractive option for people who need high-speed connectivity on the road. T-Mobile has provided the Starbucks networks as part of its national hotspot service for several years, with a variety of paid plans including US$6 for one hour, $9.99 for a day and $29.99 per month with an annual agreement. Prices under AT&amp;T will be slightly lower, including $3.99 for two hours and $19.99 per month.But the deal also opens up a whole new customer base for the hotspots: Starbucks customers with an active Starbucks stored-value card will get two hours of free access per day. All that&#39;s needed to keep a card active is to have money stored on it and to buy something with it at least once a month, said Starbucks spokeswoman Bridget Baker. Starbucks employees will also get free access.AT&amp;T will take over the networks market by market, starting in the next few months and finishing by the end of the year, the companies said. Under a roaming agreement to be implemented by March 31, T-Mobile subscribers will also be able to use the AT&amp;T Starbucks networks, Baker said.The deal significantly expands AT&amp;T&#39;s network of hotspots, giving it 17,000 U.S. sites (about 70,000 worldwide) and adding a popular Web-surfing location to its lineup, which today includes McDonald&#39;s restaurants, Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores and some hotels and airports. It builds on an existing relationship in which AT&amp;T has provided back-end networks for Starbucks stores for more than 10 years, Baker said. The carrier will provide Starbucks an enterprise-class network with increased bandwidth and redundancy, according to the release.The prospect of high-speed access at Starbucks should help AT&amp;T attract new DSL customers and hold onto existing ones, telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan wrote in a commentary on the deal.&quot;The customer wins because they get to take advantage of money saving bundles, and AT&amp;T win&#39;s because it keeps customers happy which means hanging on to the customer in an increasingly competitive marketplace, and Starbucks win&#39;s because it expands their digital entertainment platform and gives customers more reasons to spend time in the stores,&quot; Kagan wrote.
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Starbucks Corp., the world&#39;s largest coffee-shop chain, on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least a year rose 8 percent in August, the first time growth fell below double-digits in nine months.
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Starbucks Corp  and PepsiCo Inc  said on Thursday they were expanding their bottled coffee business into countries outside North America, with an initial foray into China.
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Just when you thought Starbucks could go anywhere -- think again.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on  Wednesday said sales at stores open at least 13 months rose 13  percent in November, helped by the coffee shop chain's early  launch of holiday products like Christmas Blend coffee beans.
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InfoWorld - Starbucks has upgraded its Wi-Fi offering from a tall to a venti, switching partners from T-Mobile USA to AT&T in a deal that will mean free coffee-shop wireless for millions of U.S. broadband subscribers.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O said on   Thursday that sales at its coffee shops open at least 13 months   rose 5 percent, helped by sales of coffee drinks and additional   food items.