Originally posted 2007-03-10 23:31:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The Australian reports that earlier news about a resolution of Starbucks’ trademark problems with the Ethiopian coffee thing was perhaps over-caffeinated.
UPDATE: Have things perked up since then? Or simmered down? I simply don’t have grounds to say. But from the looks of it, these guys do.
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