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Starbucks teams up with Ford and Amazon to allow in-car orders via Alexa

Ford owners and coffee drinkers will soon have a new voice-enabled way to order their morning cup of joe from Starbucks.… Read More

Starbucks hires Cranium and Golazo founder Richard Tait for unique entrepreneurial role

Richard Tait, one of Seattle’s most accomplished entrepreneurs, has landed an interesting gig at the world’s largest coffee retailer. Tait,… Read More

McDonald’s is following Starbucks’ lead into mobile ordering. Could a Seattle engineering center be next?

McDonald’s is going mobile in an effort to court new customers and keep up with competitors. On Wednesday, the fast… Read More

Starbucks will create dedicated stations for smartphone orders, responding to in-store congestion

Starbucks’ high-tech hometown of Seattle has had a lasting impression on the coffee giant that’s visible at locations around the… Read More

‘Alexa, order my Starbucks’: Coffee giant launches ‘reorder skill’ for Amazon’s voice assistant

Starbucks unveiled a new third-party skill for Amazon Alexa this morning, letting regular customers reorder their favorite coffee and food… Read More

Smartphone orders clog Starbucks shops, forcing coffee giant to revamp store designs

Starbucks reported a “banner” quarter for its smartphone feature that lets customers order coffee and food ahead of time and skip… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joining Starbucks board, giving coffee giant another jolt of tech experience

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been nominated to the Starbucks board, creating a new connection between the Seattle-area corporate titans… Read More

Starbucks, Microsoft, and others raise $4.5M in one month to open homeless family shelters

Seattle-area companies like Starbucks, Microsoft, and others came together in a big way this holiday season to provide temporary housing… Read More

Starbucks offers free coffee for the holidays, but you have to find out where

Free coffee for the holidays? Starbucks is making is so, but the Seattle-based company is making you work for it… Read More

How Starbucks is using artificial intelligence to connect with customers and boost sales

Imagine pulling into a Starbucks drive-thru and seeing not just your drink order but your name on the screen — along… Read More

Starbucks taps ‘Simpsons’ writers for new animated series, expanding lineup of original content

Starbucks, meet “The Simpsons.” The Seattle-based coffee giant today unveiled its first-ever animated series, co-written by “The Simpsons” writers Joel… Read More

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering… Read More

Starbucks looks to capture Pokémon Go fans, turns stores into PokéStops and unveils raspberry-flavored Frappuccino

Hey, Pokémon fans, you’ve got a new place to try to track down Squirtles, Spearows or Slowpokes. Starbucks this week announced… Read More

Environmental group slams Starbucks over non-recyclable cups in this funny video

Another day, another Starbucks cup controversy. But this time, critics of the cup aren’t attacking Starbucks for its supposed liberal… Read More

Starbucks enables social gifting with WeChat in China — is Facebook Messenger integration next?

Starbucks today announced new social gifting integrations with the popular WeChat app in China that could pave the way for future… Read More

Coffee from a chatbot: Starbucks unveils ‘My Starbucks Barista’ AI technology for mobile orders

Coffee giant Starbucks will join the growing wave of companies using artificial intelligence and chatbots to supplement human employees, planning… Read More

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Week in Geek: New Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has deep roots in tech

Howard Schultz will be replaced as Starbucks CEO by longtime technology executive Kevin Johnson, a veteran of Microsoft and other… Read More

Meet Starbucks’ next CEO: Here’s what former colleagues say about tech vet Kevin Johnson

As Starbucks continues to invest more and more in new technology, it comes as little surprise that the company picked Kevin Johnson… Read More

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz stepping down, to be replaced by tech vet Kevin Johnson

BREAKING NEWS: Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will be stepping down as the coffee giant’s top leader in April 2017, handing over the… Read More

‘Stunned’ Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz urges kindness in post-election message to employees

Under an image of an American flag flying above his company’s corporate headquarters in Seattle, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz addressed… Read More

Report: Alphabet drones won’t deliver Starbucks as Project Wing partnership is grounded

If you wanted a Starbucks latte with your drone-delivered Chipotle burrito, it appears you’re going to have to wait a… Read More

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: How the ‘Amazon effect’ and the U.S. presidential campaign are impacting retail

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz took a pause while delivering upbeat news about record quarterly earnings and growth potential for the… Read More

Starbucks ‘unity’ cup is actually kind of divisive

This is why we can’t have nice things, America. Yesterday Starbucks unveiled a green cup that will house your overpriced… Read More

A second Amazon drive-up store in Seattle? Filings link tech giant to mystery project at Starbucks HQ

Amazon is remodeling the former Sears store at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle with 40,000-square-feet of distribution space, a public retail lobby, and… Read More

Starbucks gets into original content with new ‘Upstanders’ video and podcast series

Starbucks today unveiled its first-ever original content series called “Upstanders” that it hopes will “inspire Americans to engage in acts… Read More

The gift of Lyft: Company offering $20 cards only at Starbucks — plus riders can earn rewards for coffee

Giving the gift of coffee is a pretty tried and true expression of gratitude, it would seem, based on the ubiquity… Read More

Starbucks app finally arrives for Windows 10 Mobile, initially without Mobile Order & Pay

Coffee-loving Windows 10 Mobile users just got a shot of good news, as the long-awaited new Windows version of the Starbucks app came… Read More

Taste test: We pitted Amazon’s new private-label coffee against Starbucks, Folgers and Stumptown — and you won’t believe who won

Can the king of e-commerce become a titan of coffee? As part of Amazon’s ongoing strategy to be in the… Read More

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will adjust role, tech vet Kevin Johnson to manage leadership team

Starbucks announced a series of organizational shifts Monday that will see CEO Howard Schultz focusing on long-term projects, and president… Read More

Starbucks touts ‘suggested selling’ app feature for rewards members after earnings miss

Usage of Starbucks’ mobile order-ahead feature continued to increase last quarter as the coffee giant missed revenue expectations for its quarterly earnings. The… Read More