Thanks for your answer mdchachi.
I should maybe mention, that it seems to appear often in context of learning some news, so meaning something like "That's good to hear."
What I'm confused about is what kind of usage of で is happening in the sentence. The language is still too new to me to have developed a feel for the particles, and looking it up in various grammar resources hasn't been enlightening either. で usually is described as marking either a location (like に) or meaning "by means of". Neither seems to fit here, so it must be another usage, which I'm not aware of, no?