Starbucks News

San Jose - Because prosecutors did not charge her within a required two-day period, the woman accused of sneaking orange juice bottles spiked with a lethal amount of rubbing alcohol into a Starbucks will be released Thursday, a sheriff's spokesman said.

According to published reports that likely don't please the executives at mobile payments company Square, it looks like plenty of Starbucks baristas are having trouble completing transactions with Square's mobile payments solution.

Seattle - A Seattle woman has announced for the next year she'll only be eating foods and drinking beverages that can be purchased at Starbucks. Every year the woman sets herself with a new challenge and this year's is centered around Starbucks.

If you were fast you got in on the deal. Starbucks was giving free coffee in hopes of gaining a larger share of the the 40% of American coffee drinkers that prefer the light roast brews.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schlultz, responding to the "fiscal cliff" battle between Democrats and Republicans, instructed DC-area Starbucks shops to write "Come Together" on all cups of coffee sold.

London - The Public Accounts Committee is continuing to attack big companies like Amazon, Starbucks and especially Google over their allegedly avoiding tax. Do they want to drive them out of Britain?

Alexandria - A Virginia woman claims to have lost over 75 pounds over the course of two years by eating her meals almost exclusively at Starbucks.

Starbucks has been working on a way to convert leftover food items into reusable products, such as laundry detergent. The coffee giant wants to lessen its carbon footprint and become more environmentally friendly with unconsumed food products.

Easley - Corporations are always looking for new markets into which to expand, which is no easy task in our over-saturated McWorld. But the world's most prolific coffee retailer has managed to find a macabre niche in which to peddle its wares.

Seattle - Starbucks has unveiled plans to open a tea-only store in October. The coffee giant has hopes of establishing a standard for tea the way it has with coffee.