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Starbucks is launching a new digital network Wednesday that it says will give customers access to free e-books, movies and access to some paid news sites. The move is meant to attract customers and customer loyalty, and also to provide Starbucks with a new revenue stream.

On behalf of impatient ground hounds everywhere: Thanks a latte, Starbucks. The big green coffee-making machine has ordered its baristas to slow down -- and that could mean the caffeine-deprived masses will have to wait in longer lines for their morning jolt of java. Starbucks baristas told the...

Your morning coffee may get a little slower. Starbucks (SBUX) is telling its baristas to slow down the preparation of drinks in order to counter the image of a hot drinks assembly line. Under new guidelines for stores in the U.S. and Canada, baristas will be allowed to work on no more than two...

Starbucks is still pushing VIA, their instant home brew that comes in finger-long packets. Does anybody drink this stuff? Today through Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, get a small cup of free Starbucks coffee when you buy a 6-pack of one of Starbucks' new VIA flavors. The new VIA flavors include vanilla,...

Be prepared to pay more for your venti-sized extra-hot half-caff soy caramel macchiato at Starbucks starting soon. As the price of green Arabica coffee greens skyrockets, the company says it will raise prices for some of its more labor-intensive beverages.

Coffee chain Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) plans to use its coffee shops to test strategies aimed at getting more products into grocery stores. CEO Howard Schultz met with senior management Monday to work on a strategy for the company's growth in the next fiscal year, The Wall Street...

Starbucks is introducing three frappuccino variations with a huge discount. From 3-5 p.m. May 7-16 Starbucks is having a "happy hour" with frappuccino drinks 50% off. I've never had a frappuccino but I'm excited about this deal. The three new variations are soy strawberry and creme, extra coffee...

Depending on your view on guns, you may feel either a whole lot safer or less safe ordering a coffee at Starbucks. That's because the coffee chain has a policy allowing "open carry" of guns in its stores in states where holstered handguns can legally be carried in public. Openly carrying handguns...

The warning came in April 2009, a Starbucks representative tells me: during the analyst call to review the second fiscal quarter results for 2009. CEO Howard Schultz issued the bland-seeming statement, saying price "fine-tuning" would occur, "minor changes that will lower prices on some of our...

The chocolate drink in the new ad for Caribou Coffee looks mighty yummy. It's piled high with whipped cream and studded with chocolate shavings. In Caribou's "Get Real: Chocolate" ad, a pair of obnoxious marionettes sitting on a bench in a mall, wonder why they never get to drink anything as tasty...