YellowBrix buys Screaming Media – Washington Business Journal
After a search for the right partner, Dow Jones picked the Alexandria-based provider of news and business information services, which will absorb Screaming Media s product lines, customers and content services under the Screaming Media brand. In

Rio Tinto schedules smelter rebuild – ninemsn
Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd will next month start rebuilding a smelter furnace at its Kennecott Utah Copper (KUC) operation in the United States. Rio Tinto said in an investor presentation on Friday it had scheduled furnace rebuilds for October 2009

Latest Business News – ABQJournal
New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate climbed to 7.5 percent in August 2009 – a 12-year high – up from 7.0 percent in July and 4.3 percent a year ago, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions reported on Thursday. Year-over-year

Business news briefs: Battery firm’s shares soar – Detroit Free Press
A123 Systems made its initial public offering Thursday despite years of failing to profit. Its shares soared more than 50%. The company already has huge backers in the Department of Energy and Chrysler, and the clamor for shares shows how much

Most Hong Kong Stocks Fall on U.S. Home Sales; China Banks Rise – Bloomberg
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Most Hong Kong stocks declined, dragging the Hang Seng Index to its worst weekly performance in a month, after sales of existing homes in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped last month and commodity prices fell. Liquidity is