Starbucks to offer free iTunes access in stores
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Apple Inc  and Starbucks  Corp  said on Wednesday they had reached a deal that  will allow people to buy songs wirelessly from Apple's iTunes  music store in Starbucks coffee shops without paying WiFi  connection fees.
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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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Here's why even mobile users who don't drink coffee should care about Starbucks' decision to switch Wi-Fi access providers.
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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. 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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Business & money: Troubled coffee chain Starbucks going back to basics by testing a cut-price brew costing only $1
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Going online at a Starbucks over a Wi-Fi connection will cost less money or will even be free, thanks to a new deal between the coffee chain and AT&T.
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Starbucks is expanding its digital music service to coffee shops in Seattle and Austin, Texas, this month. The service, called the Hear Media music bar, will be available at 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting on Monday.
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Ticketmaster.com and Apple's iTunes Music Store will offer ticket buyers one free song for each ticket purchased.
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Starbucks Corp. said on Monday it has formed its own record label that will develop music offerings to be sold both in the chain's coffee shops and through traditional music retailers.
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Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge said it had signed a deal yesterday to install server computers in thousands of Starbucks Corp. coffee shops nationwide, in a bid to speed the delivery of music downloads from Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store to customers waiting in line for lattes.
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SEATTLE -- Starbucks Corp. expanded its push into the entertainment business yesterday, launching a record label with the same brand -- Hear Music -- stamped on the compilation CDs it sells in coffeehouses.
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NEW YORK, September 28  - Starbucks Corporation (SBUX.NAS), the US-based coffee giant, is expected to raise its coffee prices by $0.
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Starbucks Corp. said on Monday it  has formed its own record label that will develop music  offerings to be sold both in the chain&#39;s coffee shops and  through traditional music retailers.
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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. on Thursday said it plans to offer hot breakfast sandwiches in most of its U.S. stores after testing the products in cities like Seattle and Chicago over the last several years.
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Apple's iTunes Store to offer music fans a free song with every concert ticket purchased through Ticketmaster.