Starbucks forms Hear Music record label
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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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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.
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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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It has finally come to pass: iPod users waiting for their decaf cappuccinos at the local Starbucks will be able to wirelessly download that latest Norah Jones song while standing in line.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In an interview published recently in Pitchfork, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore mentioned that the band needed to record a new song for a Starbucks compilation. Within minutes of his remarks hitting the Internet, chat rooms and the band's fan sites were awash in cries of "foul" and "sellouts."
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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Starbucks announced nationwide rollout of the Hear Music bar, which enables customers to listen to music from tablet PCs, burn the music on CDs in the stores and purchase the CDs with a credit card.
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Starbucks Corp  said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc .
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The streaming site offers free tunes from major and indie labels.
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Starbucks will begin rolling out next week the in-store CD burning service it announced in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard back in March.
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Starbucks said Monday that it plans to give away about 50 million songs from iTunes as part of a promotion to drum up interest in its wireless music service that will debut soon.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks know that it makes good business sense for its vendor companies to reflect its own diverse customer base, as well as the face of today's global economy.
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Starbucks is opening a series of &quot;music bars,&quot; where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs. The &quot;Hear Music&quot; coffeehouses will open in 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting Monday.
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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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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Starbucks' purchases of its   own Cafe Practices certified coffee will grow strongly in the   2007 fiscal year, a senior company official said on Monday.
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The coffee company's music label adds some less standard fare.
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Starbucks Corp. , facing  stepped-up competition from rivals and slower sales growth at  established stores, is making an aggressive push this fall to  remind consumers who is king when it comes to coffee.