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Customers accuse Starbucks it "hates Jesus" for plain red holiday cups

Starbuck's new holiday cups are back for the Christmas celebration. However, instead of having Christmas symbol doodles, it has a simple red ombré design. This offends a lot of costumers, who accused the giant coffee shop that they "hate Jesus."

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Starbucks introduces Frappula, the new Halloween-inspired Frappucino

Starbucks, the most popular coffee brand in the world, has a special treat for both Halloween lovers and coffee enthusiasts as they announced plans on releasing a new vampire-inspired beverage, the Frappula.

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Chipotle has two years of bad sales growth

For over two years, Chipotle has the worst quarterly sales growth of 12%. Chipotle used to have an outstanding speed when comes to sales growth, but now for four consecutive quarters, its sales growth has been plunging.

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Starbucks to brew in Italy

A negotiation between the U.S. company and Italian businessman Antonio Percassi to bringing Starbucks to Italy is already in process. The agreement is set to be finalized this coming Christmas according to the newspaper Corriere della Serra.

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No role of nationality in antitrust probe: EU antitrust chief

Ruling out North America's claim that European antitrust authority is going in an anti-US bias in dealing with Google and Apple, the European Competition Commissioner (ECC) Margrethe Vestager has termed it as a misleading notion of the world's largest economy. Vestager has been criticized in the US media for her role in opening multiple cases against the US corporate giants Google, Apple, Amazon and Starbucks during the past one year. Vestager has become the target of the US media as European regulators are protecting EU companies from the US competition.

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Starbucks to serve alcohol at 70 locations; Booze business will be in 2,000 locations within 5 years

Yes, you read the headline right. It looks like Starbucks could use bartenders instead of baristas as it is set to add alcohol to its menu in 70 branches all over the US.

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Tech triumvirate propels Nasdaq, S&P to record highs

The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 chalked up record high closes on Friday, propelled by strong results from tech behemoths Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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Starbucks ends 'Race Together' campaign in stores, effort not over

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) head Howard Schultz told employees on Sunday they will no longer be encouraged to write "Race Together" on drinks cups, but the company's effort to promote discussion of racial issues “is far from over”.

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Starbucks Americas traffic ticks up in holiday quarter, new COO named

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) on Thursday said traffic to its Americas-region stores perked up during the holiday quarter, easing investor jitters about slower growth and boosting shares over 4 percent in after-hours trading.

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Starbucks buying full control of Japan unit for $914 million

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) on Tuesday said it plans to buy the remaining 60.5 percent share of Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd (2712.T) that it does not already own in a two-step deal valued at about $913.5 million.

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Militello invests in Maryland-based fitness app Nexercise

Northern Virginia-based private equity investment manager has invested an undisclosed amount in Nexercise, a Maryland-based free motivational health and fitness app for iPhone and Android.

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Former Square Wallet lead and Googe PM raise USD1.2 million for Secret startup in US

Former Square Wallet technical lead David Byttow and former Google product manager Chrys Bader-Wechseler are raising USD1.2 million in seed funding for their new startup called Secret.

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New Frontier Foods nets USD1.7 million in first seed funding

California-based seaweed chip company New Frontier Foods Inc. bagged USD1.7 million in its first seed funding round from executives at top corporations and other investors.

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Arbitrator orders Starbucks to pay up

In finding the termination of the agreement was improperly made, an arbitrator ruled that Starbucks is liable to pay a total of USD2.76 million to Mondelez-Kraft for violating the terms of its contract.

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Starbucks founder urges fellow business to push for US shutdown to end

Starbuck Corp Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz had urged fellow business leaders to push US political leaders to end the US partial shutdown, said a Reuters report.

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