IBT Staff Reporter

Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry smart phone, agreed to buy Swedish software developer The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a company that specializes in making software that lets smart phone users personalize their device the way they like.

Futures on the S&P 500 are down 0.30 percent to 1,219.80, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are down 0.21 percent to 11,340.00 and Nasdaq100 futures are down 0.19 percent to 2,183.00.

The actor has agreed to act in a musical. He is known to have a tolerable voice

The sixth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders, compiled by the University's Graduate School of Management, shows that men still hold roughly nine out of every 10 highest-paid management and board positions in 400 of California's largest public companies.

Technology research firm Gartner expects the global market for the 'transformational' cloud computing technology to be worth over $30 billion in the next four years.

Apple enlisted famed British Architect Norman Foster, the man behind buildings like 'The Gherkin' in London and the 'Hearst Tower' in New York, to design a new home for Apple in the recently purchased land from HP.

Stocks dipped on Monday with investors taking profits and looking for further action from European officials to prevent a debt crisis from spreading.

Investors hoped a leadership shake-up at Pfizer Inc might bring divestitures, share buybacks or other moves to kick-start the company's sluggish stock price, but they were wary of disruption stemming from the abrupt change.

Pfizer Inc. announced that its chief executive Jeffrey Kindler has retired from the company and he will be replaced by Ian Read, currently head of its global biopharmaceutical operations.

EU regulators are set to fine LG Display, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp and three other firms up to 700 million euros ($928 million) in total for fixing prices of display panels used in consumer devices, a source close to the case said on Monday.

Wall Street was set for a weak open on Monday with investors poised to lock in profits and looking for further action from European officials to prevent the debt crisis from spreading.

Credit rating agency Moody's cut Hungary's sovereign rating by two notches, to just above junk grade, on Monday and said it may cut further if the government fails to put public finances on a sustainable footing.

The Federal Reserve could end up buying more than the $600 billion in U.S. government bonds it has committed to purchase if the economy fails to respond or unemployment stays too high, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said.

Miner Rio Tinto made a $3.5 billion bid approach for Africa-focused Riversdale Mining , sending the target firm's shares surging 16 percent and setting up a potential takeover battle.

Stock index futures slipped on Monday on jitters about the European debt crisis and with investors set to lock in profits after a strong market performance last week.

P Diddy says he is not responsible for breast cancer charities not getting funds for a party he hosted for a club

PhDs awarded in Science and Engineering in the United States shot up 1.9% over the previous year for the academic year ended June 2009, and the rise was entirely due to doctoral degrees earned by women.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman plans to take on the firm's top-paid bankers and may play hardball with bonus payouts this year, the New York Post said, citing people familiar with the plans.

Stock index futures fell on Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a more sobering view of the economy and investors were set to lock in profits after a strong performance last week.

Euro zone finance ministers meeting on Monday face IMF pressure to increase the size of a 750 billion euro ($1,006 billion) safety net for debt-stricken members to halt contagion in the single currency bloc.

Euro zone finance ministers meeting on Monday face pressure to increase the size of a 750 billion euro ($1.006 trillion) safety net for debt-stricken members in order to halt contagion in the single currency bloc.

Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year old Russian, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he is the mastermind behind a notorious botnet, dubbed Mega-D, that controlled a network of infected computers and generated some 10 billion spam e-mails daily, or a third of the world's total.

The chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc,, the world's largest drugmaker, retired in an unexpected move to recharge his batteries after completing the mega merger with rival Wyeth.

China's currency peg hurts U.S. exports but is also bad for the Chinese economy, since it prevents the country's authorities from running their own monetary policy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.

AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.

China's top telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies said on Monday that it has established a security center in Britain to allow its products and software to be examined and tested.

Ben Bernanke is ready for his close-up.As the Federal Reserve tries to counter suspicion of its latest $600 billion stimulus plan, it is making a concerted, if awkward, effort to raise the chairman's profile and harmonize the often-dissonant message from within the central bank.

The IMF will urge euro zone governments on Monday to boost the size of their rescue fund and recommend the European Central Bank buy more bonds to prevent the bloc's debt crisis from derailing economic recovery.

Ben Bernanke is ready for his close-up.As the Federal Reserve tries to counter suspicion of its latest $600 billion stimulus plan, it is making a concerted, if awkward, effort to raise the chairman's profile and harmonize the often-dissonant message from within the central bank.