Very bad news: A woman in San Jose tried to poison customers at a Starbucks by swapping in juice bottles filled with nail polish remover and rubbing alcohol. Somewhat good news: She's not on a tainted OJ rampage, and nobody would really drink a "toxic" smelling bottle of juice at a Starbucks, would they?
This week was a big week for Chief Justice John Roberts. The two days of oral arguments tied to marriage equality are arguably the most important Roberts has heard yet. The last thing he needed was someone ripping him off.
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, may be a bit unpopular at the country club for the next few weeks, after expressing support for an increased minimum wage on CNBC today. Not all of his CEO friends already pay close to what President Obama proposes.
A Washington state man celebrated his birthday this year by treating himself to the most expensive drink you can custom-order at Starbucks. Let's hope he didn't chug that toxic — and potentially lethal — dose of caffeine in one sitting.
As baristas declined to partake and customers complained, the downfall of Howard Schultz's utopian dream continued when AOL's Patch network declared an incredibly strange and possibly unethical partnership with Starbucks.
Jonathan Cohn on Starbucks and the fiscal cliff, Jacob Sullum on Adam Lanza and mental health, James Bessel on Chuck Hagel and Israel, Leonid Bershidsky on the new cold war, and William H. Janeway on American-made startups.
The country's biggest coffee company is getting into its country's politics! But how, exactly, will Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rid Washington of its woe this time?
The era of big multinational corporations like Google, Amazon and Starbucks skirting around their tax liabilities is coming to a close. In the United Kingdom, it is, anyways.
A Parliamentary committee will grill top executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks on Monday about exactly how and why the companies have managed to pay appallingly low tax rates in the UK.
As the New York City area (and beyond) attempts to recover from one of the most massive, damaging storms in our history, we get a story in the New York Post that changes everything. Or, nothing, in that it confirms what we had suspected about a certain set of people who will stop at nothing to get their Starbucks.
For fans of seasonal beverages The Wall Street Journal sounded the alarm on a potential pumpkin-related crisis: Starbucks around the country appear to be running out of the special sauce that gives Pumpkin Spice Lattes their pumpkin and their spice.
Ah, Starbucks: You know you're in civilization when you're near one, and now, you can see just how ubiquitous it is with this map of the U.S. based on Starbucks locations by If We Assume's James R. A. Davenport.
In the next step toward total caffeine domination, Starbucks has unveiled its own single-shot coffee maker, with the java giant's CEO claiming a technological advance that's "cracked the code" on... milk.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Nope, we're not quite sure whether to feel good for Square, the startup that makes cashless transaction apps for smartphones, and all the success that's about to come its way, or resent it for selling out to the corporate coffee juggernaut Starbucks.
General Mills recruited the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Starbucks gave away money and Pizza Hut created more weird concoctions in this week's Social Business Index.
After a long day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
One curious thing we've learned from Sunday's horrific arson attacks in Queens is that Starbucks Frappuccino bottles may not have been randomly chosen as the weapon of choice, since they apparently are ideally suited for making Molotov cocktails.
The company will address Congress on climate change's impact on coffee
They're using the same technique they use to give back to coffee farmers in third world countries
CEO Howard Schultz canceled a speaking engagement at the behest of a very small petition
Summer brings ice cubes with our Starbucks, and ice cubes bring higher profit margins
There's so much weed in Denver its local magazine has a pot reviewer
White collar criminals skipping meetings at "passé" luxury hotels to confer over coffee
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