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...company will also introduce a web site for customers and another for employees to share thoughts with the people who run Starbucks. MyStarbucksIdea.com will initially include about a dozen categories, such as coffee, atmosphere, food, music and social responsibility. People will be able to post, discuss and vote for ideas, such as having a separate line for customers who want to quickly order drip coffee. Forty-eight Starbucks employees will respond to the posts and take suggestions back to management. "Their job is to show up every day and engage with customers about their ideas," says chief technology officer Chris...
...selects hotels, but guests?and only confirmed hotel guests?can rate them. If a hotel isn't being rated favorably, it's removed from the guide. Top-10 lists abound, and it's easy to search hotels by criteria like agenda (great food, skiing) and landscape (jungle). Cool feature: music playlists compiled by hotels to help you get a feel for the mood of the locale...
...music business has found itself a new poster girl. Adorned with tattoos and a beehive, and blessed with a smoky voice beyond her 24 years, Amy Winehouse sat proudly atop the U.K.'s album charts this spring after scooping up five awards at the Grammys in Los Angeles. She sang her signature tune for the audience there via satellite from London: "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said...
...reality, though, Winehouse - following months of much publicized troubles with drugs - had checked herself in to a treatment clinic just a couple of weeks before the show. It's a path the recorded-music business knows well. Long resistant to change, it, too, has finally accepted the need for rehabilitation. The industry's woes have, for some years, been glaringly public. Rising sales of digital music can't keep pace with the fall in sales of CDs: record-company revenues from such tangible products tumbled roughly 6% in 2007, leaving firms with some $19.3 billion in total sales last year...
...pare costs by $400 million a year. But the overhaul is not just a matter of numbers, says Guy Hands, ceo of Terra Firma and chairman of EMI: "What we are saying to artists is: The current model is broken. Unless we find a new model, new music is dead...