My Starbucks Idea celebrates its one year anniversary today. You have shared over 70,000 ideas. In the first year 94 ideas have been put into action and 25 of those have launched including – Instant Coffee , Venti Travel Cup , and Bring Back Tea Lattes . Your ideas have inspired us to think of … more »

Last week Howard Schultz hosted a second coffee and conversation night at a Starbucks in Lakewood, WA. The store was packed; about 100 customers joined him to share their views of Starbucks. Many more customers were represented, because each customer brought messages from families and friends too. Howard … more »

Some of the ideas you’ve shared on MSI have been about offering coffee classes to learn more about coffee. For those of you in the Seattle area I thought you might be interested in this exhibit at the Burke Museum that is opening this weekend. After the exhibit ends at the Burke it will travel … more »

Some of you have told us that you would be interested in a Starbucks application available for the iPhone. We just launched a music application, called Music for the Holidays . Search for Starbucks in iTunes, and you should see the icon in the applications section. This application streams Starbucks … more »

Hey all you book loving Twitter-ers! December 18 from 9 -9:15 a.m.,PST, Helene Cooper, author of House on Sugar Beach, will be holding a book club discussion on Twitter! We know many of you are on Twitter and follow @starbucks , @mystarbucksidea , and @starbucksV2V . We now encourage you to join us in … more »

Howard Schultz returned to the CEO position almost a year ago and has since been at the helm of transforming Starbucks. Over the past months we’ve tried some new things. Last night at a Starbucks store in Seattle, Howard sat with about fifty customers from the local community. Howard talked with … more »

Hello, My name is Jen Willig and I work for (RED)™, which launched two years ago with a mission to eliminate AIDS in Africa. Our philosophy at (RED)™ is simple: Choose (RED). When you buy (RED) products a portion of the proceeds helps people with HIV in Africa get the medicine they need to … more »