Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making an aggressive move into the breakfast business, including a planned budget breakfast launch that looks to capitalize on the same recession that is hurting the company's overpriced coffee sales. That has some analysts concerned that McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) could face...

There are an extremely small number of companies which are likely to do relatively well during the recession, either because they are the market share leaders in their industries by a wide margin, or they are in businesses which sell products and services which are a necessary part of everyday life....

Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX), Employees Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is on the Fortune list of "100 Best Places To Work." It is extremely hard to imagine how that happened. It fired 12,000 people earlier this year and now it's is saying it may not match employee 401 (K) programs. According to USA Today,...

I’ve seen a lot of discussion recently about application development for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms, and in particular whether the current trend for very low cost apps is sustainable long term. The first article I read was Andy Finnell’s How to Price Your iPhone App out of Exist...

Starbucks (SBUX) finally admitted what every man, woman, and child over 13-years-old already knows--no one in his right mind will pay more than $1 for a cup of coffee no matter what a barrista puts in it. That goes for 18-year-old single malt. The company's admission is also a sign that founder and ...

Starbucks Corp. announced the full list of its 600 stores it plans on closing, with nearly 15 percent of the total falling in California. Two are in the city limits of Los Angeles, with many more closings in the outlying areas.. (SBUX)...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL), Starbucks (SBUX), International Business Machines (IBM) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates is riding off into the sunset today, at least he sort of is. The man who made nerds and geeks "cool" is shifting his focus away from the w...

OK, not really. But they have the most annoying Wifi system.  I read recently they give it away free now like.......everybody else. Except you need to buy a rewards card. Fine, so I walk into a scenic Starbucks here on the spectacular Route 18 in East Brunswick NJ and ask for a rewards card. And I ...

Starbucks’s new rewards program demonstrates just how hard it is, in any industry, to build a program that inspires allegiance to a particular brand....

Filed under: Products and services, Starbucks (SBUX), Marketing and advertising, Scandals I almost can't believe that I'm writing about this, but I guess some prudes will get up in arms about anything. BBC News reports that a U.S. based Christian group known as The Resistance is calling for a nation...