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Success with Blogging For A Business

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:55:11 -0500

The following post is submitted by a Bloggin-Ads author, Luis Sandoval Jr. of Daily Slackr. More and more businesses jump on the social media bandwagon. We are seeing the traditional business model turned upside down by the community that becomes inv

Beauty & the Buckle

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:36:00 -0500

While having my usual venti carmel macchiato @ Starbucks I was shoe watching when my eyes made contact with these gawky looking shoes with ugly buckles, Eeewh! I knew somewhere out there was a sexy shoe with a buckle or two or more. Voila I searched

[BREAKING] Starbucks To close 600 Stores!! Economy Sucks Ass

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:36:00 -0500

Starbucks Corp. has announced it's closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States.read more digg story

Heard The Coffee News Lately?

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:55:00 -0500

We just enjoy cooking and watching movies on television while having a cup of coffee on weekends. Yes, this is one of our ways to relax. Nothing compares to a good cup of coffee! And speaking of it, I remembered hearing the news a couple of days ago

Studying Yosemite's roadkill

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:53:00 -0500

NPR has an interesting report about a man named Moose Mutlow, who is a roadkill researcher and educator in Yosemite National Park. Mutlow studies miles of highway alongside the park and records data about the animals hit - some … Read the res

How many calories are in that latte?

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:41:00 -0500

New York City’s ban of trans fatty acids has been in effect a week now, and it is affecting us in a way we never would have guessed. Along with trans fats, chain restaurants are now required to list calorie counts on the menu. So now when we go int

Starbucks Woes

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:08:00 -0500

I freely admit, I have never been a Starbucks fan. Their coffee was greatly overpriced. I can’t see paying four bucks for a regular cup of coffee or more for a latte. I just never could see the fascination of paying so much for a cup of coffee w

Randomizing: 600 Sincere Tears for Starbucks; 10,000 Laptops; Rockin the G8; and The Man in the Flying Lawnchair

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:52:43 -0500

by Damozel | Reuters explores the glee of coffee drinkers who are glad to learn that Starbucks will be closing 600 'underperforming' locations nationwide. I cannot condone this. Before Starbucks came to town, where were all these plucky, innovative i

I’ve Come to Bury Starbucks, Not to Praise Him

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:10:58 -0500

(with apologies to William Shakespeare) Julius Starbucks, Act III, Scene II {Prologue: Julius Starbucks lays on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, with traders and consumers delighting in his demise.} {His close friend, Terry Starbucker, begin

Ipod Touch on Steroid: Ipod doing Business

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:23:19 -0500

Imagine walking inside any mall and when passing in front of any store your Ipod Touch automatically load a web page that let you know all the offers available, then you can browse, check price send the offers to someone at home to verify price, size

Iphone é bom mesmo ou só dá status?

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:10 -0500

“Nós, parte de uma geração que vê a globalização pela TV mas nem sempre pode prová-la in loco, vamos ao café esperando encontrar os Friends no sofá ao lado e bater um papo com eles. Será como aqueles loucos por James Joyce que fazem o Blo

12,000 Starbucks Employees to Lose Job

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:00:09 -0500

12,000 employees of Starbucks in the United States are set to lose their job after the company decided to downsize its operation and close down 600 of its outlets. With the US economy facing downturn and uncertainties, consumers are looking for ways

Starbucks: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:00 -0500

Not that I'm a business visionary or anything, but I saw this coming. Starbucks has announced that it will close 600 U.S. stores between now and 2009, eliminating roughly 12,000 jobs. The company blames the sluggish economy, of course, but I'm thinki

Week in Numbers: Financial Turmoil! Sky Falling!

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:15:37 -0500

The Dow opened on January 2nd, 2008 at 13,261.82 and opened on July 1st, 2008 at 11,344.64 - for a spectacular fall of over 1,917 points. Don’t calculate the percentage, it’ll just make you throw up. This week, a barrel of oil (NYMEX Sw

Be green on July 4th

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:30:00 -0500

Ecotravel News hopes that everyone is already at their Independence Day locales and has gotten there agap (as green as possible). There are even more ways to green-up your holiday celebrations and Plenty Magazine has a few tips: … The rest i

Kindle Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device review

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:18:58 -0500

The perfect e reader for Starbucks Welcome in 2008 and 2009 with the brand new Kindle. It is been a long-time since I said I will talk about this tool. Today is the day. My friend in New York bought months ago. I had the chance to play with it.

Starbucks to Close 600 Stores in the U.S.

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:02:13 -0500

"After an extensive and rigorous review of our U.S. company-operated store portfolio, our executive and field leadership team, which included Operations, Store Development and Finance, has decided to close approximately 600 underperforming compan

Coffee Anyone

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:55:05 -0500

Every where you look you can see a Starbucks coffee shop. They are springing up everywhere. They are in malls and the corners of streets. There in airports and strip malls. If you look real close you might see one on one side of the street and go dow

Trouble in Coffeeland

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:13 -0500

Many people I know love coffee, they say that it is the ultimate drug for them, they drink their morning cup of joe and instantly feel happy, as the caffeine hits their system they feel like they could accomplish anything. As a tea drinker this isn&#

Girding our loins as the crunch bites…

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:04:00 -0500

£1.25 billion wiped off Marks & Spencer’s value and unsurprisingly it’s plastered all over the news today. It’s heart warming to see that the retailer is still regarded as the high street barometer – but sad to learn that our love affai