Starbucks

Starbucks’ Schultz: Don’t Read Anything Into Exit From Groupon Board

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 10 at 10:44 am PT

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz said today on CNBC that he has confidence in both Groupon’s board and CEO, even after stepping down from the board after 19 months.

Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining

Kara Swisher in Commerce on April 30 at 12:40 pm PT

Will a shake-up of the board of the daily deals company help its prospects?

Voices

Wearable Devices: How Geeky Glasses and Wristbands Will Move Mainstream

Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research in Voices on April 17 at 4:45 pm PT

We’ve all seen the movies: Gadget-laden heroes from James Bond to Terminator to Iron Man have long relied on voice-controlled watches and heads-up display glasses to extend their powers.

News Byte

Google Offers a Reasonably Priced Coffee at Starbucks

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 3 at 1:41 pm PT

Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon clone, will be offering a $10 Starbucks gift card tomorrow for half off. For every one sold, Google will donate $3, or up to $3 million, to Create Jobs for USA. National deals are used by daily deal providers to drum up thousands of new subscribers. Last month, AmazonLocal, which also is a new entry in the space, sold one million Amazon gift cards in 17 hours.

Visa Places Bet on New Approach to Payments With Rare Investment in TrialPay

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 31 at 7:00 am PT

Visa, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and others are pouring $40 million into TrialPay, which helps companies like Facebook, Gap and Fandango increase sales through the use of incentives.

News Byte

Wal-Mart Acquires Small Mobile Agency to Beef Up Tech Team

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 10:08 am PT

Wal-Mart’s technology division, @WalmartLabs, has acquired Small Society, a mobile agency in Portland, Ore. In a blog post, Wal-Mart said the company will join another acquisition it made in the Northwest, and both will work closely with its Silicon Valley offices. Small Society has developed apps for large organizations, including the Democratic National Committee, Zipcar and Starbucks. Terms were not disclosed.

Starbucks’ Schultz: Don’t Read Anything Into Exit From Groupon Board

Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining

Wearable Devices: How Geeky Glasses and Wristbands Will Move Mainstream

Google Offers a Reasonably Priced Coffee at Starbucks

Visa Places Bet on New Approach to Payments With Rare Investment in TrialPay

Wal-Mart Acquires Small Mobile Agency to Beef Up Tech Team

Yahoo Okays Initial Term Sheet to Sell Stakes Back to Asian Partners — While Also Hoping to Keep PE Firms in Fray

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Hearsay CEO Clara Shih Named to Starbucks Board

MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry

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Twitter Pumps Up Its Ads Today With “Promoted Tweets to Followers”

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Groupon Appoints Mellody Hobson to Board of Directors

Starbucks Serves Up Mobile Payments to Millions of Android Users

More Executive Moves At HP: Peter Bocian Out, Dave Donatelli Moving Up

Groupon Sees Half of All Sales Coming From Mobile in Two Years

It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature.

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Seven More Questions for Gil Elbaz, CEO of the Data Mercenary Factual

Can Social Media Predict Companies' Share Prices?

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