Bottomless, the Seattle startup using technology to make sure that coffee lovers never run out of the stuff they love, has raised $1.9 million, according to a recent Securities and… Read More
Bulletproof 360, Inc., makers of the signature Bulletproof Coffee and a host of other food and beverage products under its lifestyle umbrella, is taking a bigger step onto the national… Read More
Andy Kleitsch was pacing, sipping and talking rapidly during a phone conversation on Thursday morning. The Seattle entrepreneur had had multiple cups of coffee already — and he’d just launched… Read More
When it comes to coffee culture in Seattle, it takes a special level of innovation to generate a buzz. On Monday night, at its cafe located inside KEXP’s radio station… Read More
Perhaps you’ve heard someone refer to a strong cup of coffee as “rocket fuel.” That terminology could have especially fun relevance for a company called Space Roasters, which wants to… Read More
Every pot I make and every cup of coffee I drink at home is made with stale coffee beans. That’s the sad assertion from Michael Mayer, a coffee lover and… Read More
Starbucks will integrate its online store and customer rewards program with Alibaba’s popular apps and online services, used by more than 500 million people in China, and launch a new delivery… Read More
There’s more to life than craft beer. That might be hard for some to swallow, especially in such a beer-crazy place as Seattle. But at PicoBrew, it was time to… Read More
I’m sitting in the cafeteria of Building 25 on the sprawling Microsoft headquarters with an Oculus Rift headset strapped on my head. Swiveling from side to side, looking like a… Read More
Amazon held its second annual Coffee Symposium on Friday as a means of showcasing the dozen or so independent roasters that operate in buildings across its campus and I stopped… Read More
How about a little blockchain with your coffee? Starbucks is the latest company to consider the use of blockchain technology. The Seattle-based giant announced today that it will start a… Read More
How are we going to make it through the holidays without a WAR ON CHRISTMAS? If past holiday offerings from Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks had you seeing red over the… Read More
In 2017, it’s still possible in coffee-saturated Seattle to open a coffee shop to great fanfare. Bulletproof, the Bellevue, Wash.-based brand opened its first Bulletproof Cafe in the Northwest on… Read More
Head on down to Mexico if you want to spot a mermaid in the wild. Months after whipping its coffee-drink-loving consumers into a frenzy with a colorful Unicorn Frappuccino, Starbucks… Read More
There’s probably better coffee out there than traditional truck stop coffee. But what if the truck is a Starbucks truck, and the stop is the coffee giant’s corporate headquarters in… Read More
Bulletproof 360, the Bellevue, Wash.-based lifestyle brand with a focus on “clean coffee” and other high-performance food and drinks, has gotten another jolt in its quest to get people to… Read More
A woman who was burned when the lid popped off her 20-ounce Venti Pike Place Roast in a Starbucks drive-thru has been awarded $100,000 by a jury in Florida. Eater reported… Read More
Starbucks continues to roll out new strategies to help combat congestion at stores caused by its mobile order-ahead service. The company, which met expectations for its quarterly earnings report that posted today,… Read More
This is what it looks like when a coffee giant thinks big. Starbucks announced this week that it will build another of its high-end Reserve Roastery locations on one of the… Read More
Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is a chain of coffee stores, and Amazon is an e-commerce… Read More
Free coffee for the holidays? Starbucks is making is so, but the Seattle-based company is making you work for it online. Starbucks’ “Pop-Up Cheer Parties” are a movable feast, taking… Read More
Starbucks today announced new social gifting integrations with the popular WeChat app in China that could pave the way for future partnerships with apps like Facebook Messenger in the U.S. The… Read More
One coffee drinker’s perfect brew may be another drinker’s battery acid, but mathematicians say they’re zeroing in on the equations behind the taste of drip coffee. The University of Limerick’s Kevin… Read More
Amazon is now selling nuts and trail mix under the Happy Belly brand, its private label for perishables. Previously on GeekWire: Taste test: We pitted Amazon’s new private-label coffee against Starbucks,… Read More
Can the king of e-commerce become a titan of coffee? As part of Amazon’s ongoing strategy to be in the everything business, the company began quietly rolling out its own private-label… Read More
Crema.co, the Seattle-based startup that coffee lovers should be buzzing about for more than one reason, has evolved beyond just being an online marketplace and now uses its technology to learn… Read More
Starbucks said today that usage of its mobile order-ahead feature doubled year-over-year during the most recent quarter. The company’s Mobile Order & Pay program first launched in Portland more than a year ago and allows… Read More
The new “Starbucks Rewards” program (formally My Starbucks Rewards) launches Tuesday with an app upgrade and a new system for awarding stars, the coffee giant’s version of points. Users previously earned… Read More
Amazon’s Dash program has expanded to include products from more than 100 brands, the company announced this morning, a year after unveiling the initiative to let Amazon Prime members quickly reorder specific products by… Read More
Not all innovation has to push the technological envelope. Sometimes a well-meaning individual with a good idea and an eye for detail just makes something simple that we want to put… Read More