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People infuriated by what they call a discriminatory ban on photography by one of Italian fashion label Dolce & Gabbana’s Hong Kong outlets have protested outside the store.
Several dozen people gathered outside the shop Sunday afternoon. They yelled for the company to apologize after news reports earlier this month said sales staff were preventing Hong […]

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Think your programming skills are world class? Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge.
"Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook," the company said in a blog post announcing this year’s competition. "Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, […]

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For the St. Louis economy, this year looked a lot like the previous 20 or 30, and it’s a rut we really need to get out of.
Job growth lagged the nation. Well-known local companies succumbed to takeovers, without enough new businesses to take their place. Officials argued about strategy while failing to address the region’s […]

Citigroup says it is cutting 4,500 jobs over the next few quarters.
CEO Vikram Pandit said the job cuts are part of the New York bank’s efforts to reduce costs. Pandit made the remarks Tuesday at a financial services conference hosted by Goldman Sachs & Co.
Citigroup Inc.’s fourth-quarter results will include $400 million in expenses related […]

A maker of coal-mining equipment says it is investing more than $13 million to expand a southern Illinois plant, creating or retaining 150 jobs.
Magnum Steel Works Inc. said Friday the investment will be made over four years to nearly quadruple the size of the Mount Vernon factory to 128,000 square feet.
The company says 52 of […]

Asian stocks surged Tuesday after a pledge by European leaders to protect the region’s banks against a continent-wide debt crisis and Beijing’s move to buy the shares of major Chinese lenders.
Oil prices hovered above $85 a barrel in Asia, while the dollar strengthened against the euro and the yen.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shot up 3 […]

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Bargain hunters helped push the Dow back above 11,000 Tuesday.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 196 points, or 1.8 percent, to 11,005 in midday trading. On Monday, the Dow had its worst day since 2008, plunging 634.76 points as fear coursed through global markets.
“We’ve got no information that makes us feel any better or worse” […]