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Thursday, February 9, 2012 - Page updated at 10:05 p.m.
Back in the air with 'Microsoft Flight' simulator
Brier Dudley's Blog: Microsoft is resurrecting one of its oldest franchises, "Flight Simulator," with an entirely new game called "Microsoft Flight," debuting Feb. 29 as a free online game. Here's a Q&A with Executive Producer Joshua Howard.
BILL WAGNER / THE DAILY NEWS, 2011
Bennu Glass CEO Jerry Lemieux in November scans the top of the 400-ton electric melter that failed and led to the shutdown of the wine-bottle factory in Kalama. Workers chiseled away tons of hardened glass from the crippled melter, and a new furnace and 100 employees should be ready to restart the shuttered factory in July.
UPDATE - 8:00 PM
State's share of mortgage settlement: $648 million
It could take six to nine months for homeowners to find out if they are eligible for the relief, and officials aren't ready to say how many Washington homeowners might benefit.
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UPDATE - 8:24 PM
Zumiez's online-order center off to Kansas; 35 Everett jobs cut
Spreading the word for Fair Trade USA
In Person: After helping Nicaraguan cooperatives sell coffee to European fair-trade buyers for four years, Paul Rice figured it was time to bring the fair-trade model to the United States.
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Wednesday, February 8
Microsoft, Apple, Google and their patent stances | Microsoft Pri0
Former Cisco exec Laura Ipsen named head of Microsoft's Worldwide Public Sector | Microsoft Pri0
Windows 8 Consumer Preview event scheduled for Feb. 29 | Microsoft Pri0
Former Windows boss giving away guitar, lessons | Brier Dudley's Blog
[Updated] Microsoft employees raise record $100.5 million for nonprofits | Microsoft Pri0
Boiling point at the port | Jon Talton
UW opening incubator facility for startups
Business leaders want to attract young families to downtown
Fashion counterfeiters adapt to downturn, shift to cheaper brands
Qantas grounds Airbus jet after finding cracks in wings
Refinancing applications reportedly overwhelm BofA
With new CEO, JC Penney pulls plan for downtown Seattle store
Snapshot of 2011 housing market
After more than two years of on-again, off-again federal tax credits, the housing market in 2011 had two things going for it — historic low mortgage rates and lots of inventory — which enticed some buyers back into the market. As for prices, well, let's just say they are higher than they were a decade ago.


