By R "Ray" Wang on February 9, 2012
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers […]
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By Jason Busch on November 22, 2010
For those who know the employees in our office and me, personally, you know we take our coffee seriously (Sheena borders on the point of a slight obsession). Perhaps this is why we recently spent a few days coming up with a new co…
Posted in Business | Tagged Coffee, Starbucks
By Jeff Nolan on May 3, 2010
What exactly is the tip jar at the local coffee place supposed to recognize, excellent cash register operation, and at Starbucks is it for excellent button pushing? How about the car wash, am I supposed to drop a dollar in the tip box because they dried my car really well… how about when they do […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cash register, Coffeehouse, Starbucks, tip jar, tipping, tips