RIM posts bright holiday outlook despite economy

Research In Motion has delivered a quarterly profit in line with forecasts and a rosier-than-expected outlook that reflects strong holiday sales of its BlackBerry smartphones even as the global economy slows. Investors

Germany plans 25 bln euro stimulus package-media

Germany's government is planning a package of measures worth 25 billion euros, less than the 40 billion euros previously reported for new projects, to help Europe's biggest economy withstand recession, newspapers reported

U.S. housing slump deepens

 Bleak housing data showed the United States and Britain were sinking deeper into recession and authorities from Washington to Tokyo worked hard to spend their way out of the worst downturn in

SEC chief defends response to economic turmoil

 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, responding to heavy criticism, said in an interview published on Wednesday he takes pride in his response to the U.S. financial crisis. "What we

EU’s new digital library operational again

The European Union's first large-scale digital library, Europeana (www.europeana.eu), was online again Tuesday, a month after it crashed after being overwhelmed by readers' interest. "Europeana works again … after we have quadrupled