Brightloom has raised $15 million as it aims to help companies turn their customer data into personalized marketing campaigns. Brightloom evolved out of restaurant automation startup Eatsa in 2019, when… Read More
Starbucks’ commitment to technology-powered retail solutions took another step forward on Monday as the company announced it is teaming with Brightloom, the restaurant tech company formerly known as Eatsa. And… Read More
Smartsheet, the Seattle-area maker of work collaboration software, appointed Anna Griffin as its first chief marketing officer. Griffin was previously CMO at IEX Group, which runs a stock exchange, and… Read More
Spotify is hoping to sign up millions of new subscribers to its streaming music platform through a new partnership announced today with Starbucks. “We are trying to grow in the millions,”… Read More
At the Starbucks annual shareholder meeting today, the company plans to unveil new details of its highly anticipated delivery service launching in the second half of this year in Seattle and New York City.… Read More
Starbucks is rolling out an updated iPhone app today that will finally enable Apple Pay. The Seattle coffee chain was one of the first retailers to say it would support Apple’s payments service… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – Is Starbucks a tech company or a retailer? That was the question I posed to Starbucks Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman yesterday in Portland, where the company… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — Starbucks launched a major new initiative today, allowing people to place orders from their iPhone for pick-up at a nearby store. As part of the launch, Adam Brotman, Starbucks’… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two minutes after ordering my tall sugar-free vanilla latte on my iPhone, a barista called my name saying it was ready. A minute or two after that,… Read More
Starbucks is brewing up a way for customers to not just pay for their coffee via the company’s popular smartphone app, but to order coffee from their phone, too. The coffee chain’s Chief… Read More
Ever wish it was possible to skip the line at Starbucks by punching in an order through the company’s smartphone app? It’s coming soon. Adam Brotman, Starbucks’s Chief Digital Officer,… Read More
Typically, around these parts at least, technological innovation is associated with tech titans like Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing. But there’s a bit of a technological revolution brewing at one of… Read More
Starbucks customers are increasingly paying for their coffee drinks and snacks with their mobile phones. The Seattle coffee retailer said today that it has processed some 26 million mobile transactions… Read More