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Collectors evolving into 'passionate investors'

Dennis Varni remembers buying his first car, a 1931 Ford Model A, more than a half century ago when he was 14. It cost him $45 and to amass that princely sum, he picked fruit, hawked his model train set and even sold the clothes off his back.
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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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Conn. Home Invasion: Joshua Komisarjevsky Condemned to Death

A jury condemned Joshua Komisarjevsky to die for the brutal murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and daughter Hayley and Michaela. Komisarjevsky will join accomplice Steven Hayes on Connecticut's death row for the triple killing, despite defense arguments that he is mentally ill and was horribly abused as a child.
Hospitals Invest in Cancer Treatment Facilities that Cost up to $200 Million

Next-Generation Cancer Facilities, with $200 Million Price Tag, Gain Traction

Proton beam facilities can cost over $200 million, a price few medical centers are willing to pay. But with the help of investors and a growing body of research that points to better patient outcomes, the technology is starting to take hold and will soon be on track to be the status quo in radiation oncology.
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Apple iPad 3 Release Slated for February 2012 [REPORT]

One Citi analyst, citing sources close to the situation, believes Apple will release its next-generation iPad in February of 2012. The tablet will reportedly feature double the pixel density of the iPad 2, as well as a new LED system.

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