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starbucks baristas are cooking up a music playlist to go with that coffee I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update Starbucks is partnering with Spotify and bringing the streaming music service into its stores in a new way by putting the store's music in the hands of Spotify users as part of the multi-year deal Starbucks employees are getting free spotify premium accounts that normally costs ten dollars a month and the employees can create playlists for the store's customers with Spotify can give feedback if they do or don't like a song and they can also request songs to play in the store the Starbucks app will also tie in with the Spotify app so Spotify users can earn points for free coffee starbucks is known for its influence on music and technology back in 2007 it partnered with apple and currently offers iPhone app users a free song every week from iTunes perhaps that relationship will be a little strained going forward because Apple is working on a music service to compete with Spotify we'll see how all this works out when it launches in the fall Spotify also has been creative in marketing and partnerships Spotify can be tied into your uber app so you can control what music plays on your driver's stereo and reports suggests that Spotify is going to be adding video streaming to its app Spotify is keeping quiet but more details will likely be revealed at a news event on wednesday blending music and videos is the name of the game lately music streaming service title charges a monthly fee like Spotify but it also offers music videos and music videos are showing up on all sorts of apps snapchat has become a popular place to debut music videos back in February Madonna premiered her living for love video and this week the electronic musician known as gold room is releasing for music videos on snapchat you can find it in the discover section the app is becoming a media platform for short shows and news reports all of which disappear within 24 hours in other news Apple has made some updates to its Mac computers it added the new force touch trackpad to the 15-inch macbook pro laptop instead of the traditional clickable trackpad this one has new haptic feedback it creates sort of a tap vibration feeling on your finger to make it feel like a click without actually having a hinge that moves up and down it also has faster flash storage and longer battery life in addition Apple is selling a two-thousand-dollar version of the top-of-the-line imac with retina 5k display that's cheaper than the original model which came out in October and that also got a price cut it's now costing 2300 dollars and if you're wondering what is retina 5k well it's a ridiculously high def screen or you can't see the pixels no matter how close you get that your tech news update head over to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey