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Square brews up a way to let you order coffee from your phone (but not at Starbucks)

Square plans to announce a new location-based service today that will let customers place coffee orders from their phone and have… Read More

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Starbucks finally updates Android app to allow for digital tipping

Starbucks has finally updated its Android app to enable its customers to tip their baristas using their phone. Customers will now have… Read More

Starbucks cancels thousands of Gold accounts over issues with birthday information

Loyal Starbucks customers are waking up to some frustrating news this morning. The Seattle coffee giant is canceling Gold Card reward… Read More

Seattle startup vet Kelly Smith heading to Shanghai to lead Starbucks digital push in China

Seattle startup vet Kelly Smith is headed to Shanghai. But Smith — the founder of RocketVox (sold to ThePlatform), ImageKind… Read More

Starbucks launching mobile ordering pilot later this year, testing how long coffee will stay hot

Starbucks is brewing up a way for customers to not just pay for their coffee via the company’s popular smartphone app, but… Read More

Starbucks to pay for online tuition for coffee-fueled baristas

Pulling an all-nighter should be a little bit easier for these college students. Starbucks announced this morning that it is… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon music, Lively shutdown, and the new world of tech design

We’ve got a lot to discuss on this week’s GeekWire radio show, starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s new Prime Music… Read More

Power up: Starbucks starts national rollout of wireless device charging mats

Your next visit to Starbucks might deliver a different kind of jolt. After testing wireless smartphone charging in Boston and the Bay Area, the… Read More

Square bails on Wallet app in latest fallout from troubled Starbucks partnership

Square, the San Francisco-based mobile payments company, is changing course in a major part of its business — giving… Read More

Square’s deal with Starbucks is costing the payments startup millions

Square lost at least $20 million as a result of its partnership with Starbucks in 2013, according to a report in the WSJ,… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Seeking the perfect cup of coffee, with a shot of technology

How can you brew the best cup of coffee at home or work? Are convenient home-brewing technologies making your coffee better or worse? What… Read More

How the Starbucks and Square payments venture ran out of steam

Two years ago, Starbucks promised to change the way people pay for coffee when it invested $25 million into Square,… Read More

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz backs Gatheredtable, a new way for families to plan menus for the week

If you’re like me, family dinner time is usually a mad scramble to find something to eat, typically resulting in… Read More

iTunes bug delays new tipping app from Starbucks

Coffee drinkers will have at least a few more hours before they can start tipping their Starbucks barista from their… Read More

More than 14% of Starbucks transactions are now made with a mobile device

Recently, Starbucks has announced a flurry of new digital tools for customers from pre-ordering drinks remotely to a feature debuting today… Read More

‘Mad Money’ Jim Cramer brings his stock-picking schtick to Seattle

Jim Cramer has a love affair with Seattle. Well, at least some of the companies here. As we’ve noted in… Read More

Starbucks to let customers skip lines by ordering from smartphones

Ever wish it was possible to skip the line at Starbucks by punching in an order through the company’s smartphone… Read More

New Starbucks mobile app will let customers tip from their phones

You’ll soon be able to tip a Starbucks barista straight from your smartphone. The Seattle-based coffee giant’s iPhone app, which… Read More

Keurig brewing up controversy over DRM-enabled coffee maker

Grab a cup of Joe and take a seat to hear the latest controversy in the coffee industry: Green Mountain Coffee… Read More

Fortune’s most-admired companies: Apple 1st; Amazon 2nd; Microsoft 24th

Fortune released its annual list of “most-admired companies” today, and Apple remained at the helm as Microsoft dropped out of… Read More

Need cheap coffee? Wear Seahawks gear to Starbucks today for a 12-cent cup of joe

First, Microsoft and T-Mobile got in on the Seahawks craze. It was only a matter of time before another big… Read More

Starbucks updating iOS app to address ‘theoretical vulnerabilities’

Update, Jan. 17: Starbucks has now issued the promised update to the app. Starbucks says it will make further updates… Read More

Your latte, at risk? Starbucks challenged over mobile password security

[Follow-up: Starbucks updating iOS app to address ‘theoretical vulnerabilities’] Look out, the hackers may be coming after your morning cup of… Read More

Tweet-a-Coffee: You can now buy a Starbucks latte for a friend via Twitter

Here’s something that coffee-crazed and tech-mad Seattleites will certainly love. Starbucks is launching a new partnership with Twitter called Tweet-a-Coffee… Read More

Microsoft tops Apple as America’s most inspiring company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th

Is it Bill Gates and his foundation? The company’s corporate giving program? Or maybe it’s just Steve Ballmer’s passion-packed speeches.… Read More

Google to make Starbucks wireless 10 times faster under new partnership

Google will become the official provider of Wi-Fi at Starbucks stores in the U.S., promising to make the coffee… Read More

Mobile milestone: 10% of U.S. Starbucks transactions now made with phone

When you step up to the register to pay at the coffee shop, do you reach for cash, a card… Read More

Starbucks rolling out wireless charging in tables to Silicon Valley

You can get a little extra jolt at Starbucks locations in the Bay Area both for your mental state, and… Read More

Placed Insights reveal how much Americans love fast food and McDonald’s

America sure loves its fast food. That’s the latest from the April rankings of Placed Insights, a platform that is essentially… Read More

Inside La Marzocco: Starbucks’ original espresso machine gets a high-tech makeover

Walking into the La Marzocco distribution center and showroom, the ambiance is pretty low profile. Amidst the rows of smooth, stainless… Read More