Starbucks Spreading Its CD &#39;Bars&#39;
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Starbucks is pushing its new digital music offering into Seattle and Austin in the next month. The Hear Music media bar is an in-store kiosk that allows consumers to buy customizable CDs.
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Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in more than 7,000 of its U.S. coffee shops beginning this spring.
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Coffee house chain Starbucks said Thursday it had signed an agreement with Apple Computer to make its Hear Music offerings available through the iTunes service, including playlists of the same music heard in its shops worldwide.
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Starbucks Coffee today announced the national launch of the Hear Music media bar. This new service, powered by HP technology, allows Starbucks customers to create personalized CD compilations and burn full
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Starbucks Corp.  on Thursday  raised its store expansion target to 40,000 from its previous  goal of 30,000.
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Coffee house Starbucks is to launch its own music label, saying it will sign both established and new artists.
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Starbucks Corp.  on Tuesday promoted the head of its international business to the new post of chief operating officer, part of a slew of management changes focused on the coffee shop chain's rapid global expansion.
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After Starbucks acquired Hear Music in 1999, it started selling self-produced CDs in its stores, recently launched a satellite radio music channel and in March opened its Hear Music Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, California.
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Starbucks Corp. on Thursday said its Hear Music catalog will be available in the iTunes music store under an agreement with iTunes owner Apple Computer Inc..
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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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McDonald's Corp  is set to launch coffee bars with "baristas" serving cappuccinos and lattes, moving into direct competition with global coffee chain Starbucks Corp. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Starbucks Corp.  on Tuesday promoted the head of its international business to the new post of chief operating officer, part of a slew of management changes focused on the rapid global development of the U.S.-based coffee shop chain.
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Starbucks Corp. on Thursday raised its long-term expansion goal to 40,000 stores from 30,000, and said it was no where close to exhausting opportunities in North America even though growth also looms internationally.
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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 said it had set a new long-term goal to have 40,000 coffee stores worldwide, more than triple its current number.
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Starbucks Earnings Growth Caffeinated
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Think there are too many Starbucks in the world? The coffee retailer apparently doesn&#39;t think there are enough. Starbucks yesterday expanded its estimate of outlets that it eventually plans to open worldwide to 30,000, up from 25,000.