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· SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasts into orbit
· Houston makes its case for a space shuttle

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· Poll: Microsoft Bing at one year. A success?
· Microsoft kills Bing Cashback

Tech Chronicles
· New Web app makes Facebook privacy settings easier
· Olympus Capital raises $150 million inaugral fund

Get to Work
· Unemployment rate dips thanks to Census temps; little to cheer
· Interview attire: Yes, it does matter

Reader blog: Job Topix
· I Haven't Forgotten About You
· Your Job Search Marketing Plan : Step 2 Market Research

Reader blog: Seattle Startup Buzz
· Health Insurance's Bunker Buster - Seattle company at the tip of the spear
· TechCrunch: Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants

Reader blog: The Biz Bite
· New book by Seattle branding expert Maria Ross: Release party June 15
· Seattle salon helps fight oil spill: Studio 904

Reader blog: The Organizational Strategist
· Engage, Empower and Enthuse your Employees with Appreciative Inquiry Cascading Interviews
· Linking Strategy to Action: The Chains of Communication

Reader blog: Workplace Wrangler
· Silver Lining of Dark Clouds
· 6 Tips for Employee Motivation

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· Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured
· Hungary backtracks on talk about default
· G-20 finance chiefs agree on need to curb deficits
· Honda says Chinese labor dispute has been settled
· China to review plans for Agricultural Bank's IPO
· Pa. Hershey chocolate workers approve labor deal
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· Millionaire's test rocket reaches orbit on 1st try
· Oracle cutting more Sun jobs
· Microsoft shutters Bing shopping rebate program
· Summary Box: Apple likely to launch new iPhone
· Oklahoma entity receives $1 million grant
· Xilinx prices $520M convertible notes sale
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
New Web app makes Facebook privacy settings easier
Facebook Inc. just created a new page loaded with information, videos and tips to help users understand the social network's new "simplified" privacy settings.

Poll: Microsoft Bing at one year. A success?
Bing celebrated its first birthday Thursday. Microsoft rebranded the "decision engine" from Live Search in an effort to eat away at Google's dominating search share, and partnered up with Yahoo to do it doubly so.

Microsoft kills Bing Cashback
Bing Cashback, the popular program that gave refunds to people who shopped online through Microsoft's search engine, is no more, the company announced Friday.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasts into orbit
Space X's two-stage Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted into space and settled into orbit Friday.

Houston makes its case for a space shuttle
Houston publicized its case Friday for getting one of the two space shuttles for which approximately 20 U.S. sites, including Seattle's Museum of Flight, are competing.

Olympus Capital raises $150 million inaugral fund
Olympus Capital Partners, a new Menlo Park venture capital firm, will announce Monday that it raised a $150 million inaugural fund, bucking the trend at a point when investors are generally loath to plug money into the sector.

Triumph machinists approve new contract
The 335 unionized machinists at Triumph Composites in Spokane have approved a new three-year contract with an 81-percent vote, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District 751, said Friday.

Pending home sales in Seattle tumble as tax credits end
Pending home sales of single-family homes in Seattle were down 38.45 percent in May compared with April, according to the latest numbers from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

Reports: ANA expects to get first 787 in November
Executives at Boeing 787 Dreamliner launch customer All Nippon Airways expect to get the carrier's first 787 in November, start it on domestic routes next January and start flying it overseas in March.

Video: Bill Gates on Steve Jobs and Apple
Bill Gates and his dad, Bill Gates Sr., appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday evening. For a few minutes, Gates addressed the success of Apple and Steve Jobs.

Boeing got more orders through May, Airbus delivered more
Boeing has more orders than Airbus through May, according to figures from both plane makers.

United plans two fuel-saving trans-Atlantic test flights
United Airlines plans two trans-Atlantic flights using fuel-saving techniques on World Environment Day, June 5, the carrier announced Friday.

Exec: Windows Phone 7 not planned for tablets
The most successful tablet ever produced is the Apple iPad. And it took a nontraditional platform – iPhone OS instead of a traditional operating system, paired with a touch screen – to reach that point.

Boeing inks new services agreement with Jade Cargo
Speaking in New York on Thursday, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney stressed his company's focus on drumming up business in services.

Xconomy: Chase Franklin Departs Daptiv
Seattle-based Daptiv, a maker of project management software, has reduced its staff from 105 to 90 people, and CEO Chase Franklin has stepped down, according to a report in TechFlash. Franklin, the co-founder and former CEO of mobile commerce firm Qpass, joined Daptiv last September, but was unable to raise a new financing round for ...

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
Yelp pairs nicely with OpenTable
In a pairing of two popular San Francisco restaurant services, Yelp Inc. will announce today that it is integrating OpenTable Inc.'s online reservation system into the review site.

Videos: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie at D8
Here are a few videos from Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie's appearance at All Things Digital's D8 tech conference Thursday in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., where they were interviewed by columnist Walt Mossberg. You can also read my two posts from this morning:

Machinists chief: Workers, not technology, key to winning
Just as Boeing chief Jim McNerney hinted strongly that Boeing might well green-light a 737 replacement this year, the head of the company's largest union said the company's success in the increasingly crowded single-aisle market depends most-notably on its workers.

Happy 1st birthday, Bing. Your present? Google's copying you
Happy first birthday, Bing. You've had quite a year since June 3, 2009.

Blogs zero in on San Francisco
Make that Blog City.

520-day "Mission to Mars" won't leave Moscow
Six men -- three Russian, one French, one Italian-Colombian and one Chinese -- climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars.

Xconomy: Amgen Gets FDA Approval, SonoSite?s New Frontier, Craig Venter?s Enabler, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News
Quite a few Seattle biotechies are quietly gearing up for the always-important American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting from June 4 to 8 in Chicago. Combine that with a holiday weekend, and the local life sciences news was a little light for Xconomy Seattle. -One of the big national headlines this week came when Amgen (NASDAQ: ...

Xconomy: Trubion Wins Genentech, Biogen Patent Case
Seattle-based Trubion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TRBN), the developer of targeted therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases, said today it has won a patent dispute against Genentech and Biogen Idec. The dispute centers on targeted therapies designed to block a marker on cells, CD20, which is currently hit by Genentech and Biogen Idec's rituximab (Rituxan). Trubion, which ...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010
Xconomy: Tippr Buys Chitown Deals
Seattle-based group buying site Tippr.com announced today it has acquired Chitown Deals, based in Chicago, for an undisclosed amount. Tippr, which focuses on consumers' collective buying (and discount vouchers) from small businesses, is currently operating in 10 U.S. cities and looking to expand. The site is led by entrepreneur and investor Martin Tobias. Its parent ...

TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010
Xconomy: Three Dealmakers Make Moves, MicroGreen Gets Moolah, SonoSite Buys Visualsonics, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
The past couple of weeks have been slow-going for company financings and acquisitions in the Northwest. We’ve seen some high-profile personnel moves at Microsoft, as well as at Accel Partners and Founder’s Co-op (see below), but little in the way of money changing hands. Nevertheless, there was some action in the worlds of software, advanced ...

Privacy concerns inspire a new wave of startups
A slate of ambitious online startups aims to squeeze into the fields of social networking and search by touting a stronger focus on privacy.

Xconomy: Amgen?s Dmab Wins FDA Approval
Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) has received clearance from the U.S. FDA to start selling denosumab (Prolia) as a treatment for women with osteoporosis. The drug, an injection taken every six months, works to decrease the destruction of bone and increase bone mass and strength, according to an FDA statement. The drug was approved ahead of schedule, ...