Bad news for Starbucks, the brand I love to blog about. It seems that profit forecasts won’t be quite so perky, leaving stockholders disappointed. The BBC has a quick study of how the sluggish US economy has hurt the coffee giant.
I guess they haven’t been selling enough of those $1 Short brews.
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Usually, my commentary, scathing or not, concentrates on established, large-scale, and often multi-national brands. But today, I have to examine a web startup that is only a few years old and may be unknown to many netizens.
PodShow is a company that delivers video and audio podcasts. The best way to describe them is to liken [...]

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