In 1998, it began to partner with Keurig, a single-cup coffee brewing machine maker to manufacture and sell the K-cups, and bought the whole company in 2006.

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Shares of the K-Cups and Keurig coffee machine firm have plunged nearly 30% in pre-market trading, as traders react to a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings report.

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The modified Piaggio Vespa has a built-in coffee machine like those in any coffee shop.

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While it's still a concept, the company's so-called BeMoved coffee machine promises to finally bring the disparate worlds of hot beverages and motion control together at last, and do nothing short of raise "human interaction with a coffee machine to a higher level" in the process.

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Ever since Greg Pullman, founder and owner of Pullman Coffee Tampers in Adelaide, South Australia, resized the ill-fitting tamper for the his new coffee machine in 2002, he has been fixated on the process.

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For coffee, there is a retro-looking Kees van der Westen espresso machine, as sleek and sexy as a motorcycle, and a bartender with plenty of time to make and remake shots, unprompted, for finicky bean snobs.

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Less than two months after Starbucks released its single-serve espresso maker, the Verismo, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has answered back, revealing its Rivo machine to the world yesterday.

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Seattle-based Zipwhip's Textspresso can send and receive, allowing coffee drinkers to text their order directly to the machine to pick up later.

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