MLB, Starbucks, Sephora among those who see a home run in iOS 6′s Passbook

September 19, 2012 5:02 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Editor's Pick Developers are already releasing their own gift and loyalty card apps for Passbook -- an app that puts your loyalty cards, coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, and more on the iPhone. The app launched today, alongside iOS 6, Apple's latest mobile operating system.

A breakfast with Square and Starbucks: CEOs Dorsey and Schultz explain their unique partnership

August 8, 2012 7:28 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Editor's Pick After hearing chief executives Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz discuss how the arrangement came to be, it seems like one of the most logical unions between tech and business in recent memory.

Starbucks for Android overhauled with new design and mobile pay for UK and Canada

July 11, 2012 5:00 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Starbucks, the unlikely leader in the mobile payments space, is hoping to make its popular in-app, 2-D barcode payment system further entrenched in the U.S. and abroad with its first major refresh to the Starbucks for Android application since its …

How Starbucks is turning itself into a tech company

June 12, 2012 5:00 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Editor's Pick

The coffee was brewing as usual, and patrons were as caffeine-crazed as any other day, but something curious was happening behind the scenes at beloved and bemoaned coffee giant Starbucks on March 9, 2012.

On that date, Adam Brotman, formerly …

Starbucks apps account for 42M mobile payments (exclusive)

April 9, 2012 1:34 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

A novel new way to pay by iPhone or Android at Starbucks locations is proving too convenient for caffeine-crazed customers to pass up.

Starbucks has processed more than 42 million mobile payments since the U.S. launch of its mobile pay …

Starbucks apps account for 26M mobile payments and $110M in card reloads

December 5, 2011 6:00 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

The Starbucks brand may be synonymous with pricey lattes, but the coffee conglomerate has pushed a number of mobile initiatives in 2011 to make its name also stand for digital innovation.

New numbers released Monday suggest that the strategy is …

Starbucks has processed 20M mobile payments since January

November 3, 2011 1:56 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Starbucks has processed more than 20 million mobile payment transactions, the company revealed during its earnings call Thursday.

Starbucks Mobile Pay, the company’s pay-by-mobile application and in-store scanner system, was rolled out nationwide in January. The system, available at roughly …