Coinstar Incorporated

Starbucks and Bellevue-based self-service kiosk vendor Coinstar have teamed up to test an automated coffee machine that accepts payment cards. In partnership with Seattle’s Best Coffee, an independently operated brand within the Starbucks...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry announcing the impending demise of the DVD. While I still believe this is the case, there’s another company betting big bucks there is an audience out there that still wants physical media. Redbox’s...

Redbox and Verizon are teaming on a movie rental service to launch in the second half of this year....

Redbox agreed to spend up to $100 million to acquire Blockbuster-branded DVD kiosks operated by its largest rival, NCR Corp., adding about 9,000 machines to its existing 35,400....

Super Bowl hits a new record, MIA give you the finger, and Redbox makes a deal with Verizon....

Redbox's parent company said that its financial results were better than projected in the first three months of the year as more people rented DVDs from the ubiquitous kiosks. Also, a workaround in its ongoing feud with Warner Bros. proved cheaper than...

Trying to avoid the fate of Borders, which closed the last of its bookstores over the weekend, Netflix Inc. is moving to separate the DVD-by-mail plan it built its business on from the online streaming service it's betting will be future of...

Plainfield Police arrest 29-year old Russell Flateau after they say he robbed a Kroger cashier. They say Flateau used a Coinstar machine to cash in change. When he went to the cashier to obtain the money he shoved the employee out of the way, grabbed...

For Netflix, the hits keep on coming -- the bad kind. The latest thwack: Netflix lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers in the quarter that just ended, which was littered with PR nightmares including a price hike and the Qwikster debacle. It was the first time in...

Food Lion will open its new store near the Interstate 81 exit for Marlowe and Falling Waters, W.Va., tomorrow morning, the supermarket chain announced Tuesday. The grand opening festivities at 78 Worchester Drive in the Riverside Marketplace shopping...

Redbox prices: Say goodbye to $1-per-night DVD rentals. Kiosk rental company Redbox said Thursday it is raising its standard price to $1.20 a day to cope with rising costs. Blu-ray disc rentals will cost $2 a day, up from from $1.50....