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Singer Katy Perry performs at the 2011 American Music Awards in Los Angeles

A Year in Pictures: Katy Perry's Best and Worst Looks from 2011 [PHOTOS]

Katy Perry is best known for her eccentric looks and popular dance music, but the 27-year-old singer proved quite the comedian as she hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend. The pop singer has had a stellar year with a hugely successful tour, chart-topping dance hits, a starring role on The Smurfs and two Grammy nominations for the 2012 awards ceremony in February.
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Brocade Communications Could be Attractive to Oracle: Analyst

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:BRCD) could come in to spotlight after Blue Coat Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI) said Friday it has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by San Francisco-based private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, for about $1.3 billion.
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Strawberries and Dreams in India's Hill Districts

Farmer Shripati Nana Jadhav has good reasons to be a fan of strawberries - they've funded construction of his simple, spacious house near the hill station of Panchgani and allowed him to send his four children to college.
An armoire from the Carrolwood Drive rented home of pop star Michael Jackson is shown with a note written on the glass in this publicity photo

Contents of Jackson's final home reach auction

Contents of the mansion where Michael Jackson's lifeless body was found by convicted killer Dr. Conrad Murray go under the auction hammer next week, closing one chapter on a tragic saga that started in 2009 and ended last month with his former physician behind bars.
Los Angeles Police Department officers arrest an Occupy LA protester at the encampment at LA city hall

Undercover police spied on protesters at Occupy LA

Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA's tent city last month to spy on people they suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources said.
Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook over patents

Technology Focus: Mediating the Patent Wars

The International Trade Commission this week is expected to determine if Taiwan's HTC infringed upon Apple's smartphone patents. Isn't there a more sensible way to manage the IP wars?
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Facebook IPO Could Create Thousands of Millionaires

Excavating lost Mayan ruins or traveling to space are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for Facebook employees, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world's No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster IPO.
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Blue Coat Systems Inc. Agrees to go Private for $1.1 Billion

Blue Coat Systems Inc., a maker of equipment that secures, monitors, and speeds Internet traffic, has agreed to be taken private for $1.1 billion in a deal that throws a lifeline to a company beset by falling sales and a U.S. government probe into use of its products by Syria.
Test flight of Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA Clears SpaceX for Trial Run to Space Station

A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said on Friday.

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