Boxborough

The city of Worcester is in the process of completing an extension of its already vast data fiber network, with the goal of making it easier for businesses to access high-speed Internet connections.

Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks, a major provider of technology networking services, said it has been named an authorized vendor by the Commonwealth of Virginia for data network services.

Holiday Inn Boxborough, Middlesex Savings Bank and Emerson Hospital were main sponsors of the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce Dash and Bash 5K, to benefit the chamber scholarship fund.

All Points Limousine of Leominster has acquired All Seasons Limousine of Boxborough. The deal nearly doubles the size of All Points, and the company said it expects to add a half-dozen or so new employees to its 25-member workforce over the next year.

An Acton native who is the former head of a chamber of commerce in Williamstown is coming back home after being named executive director of the Middlesex West chamber.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough has completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of competitor Fibertech Networks, the company said Thursday.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough will still be the second-largest provider of technology network services in the U.S. after its newly-announced acquisition of competitor Fibertech Networks closes in the third quarter of this year. But Lightower CEO Rob Shanahan said Wednesday that the company will work to narrow the lead of its competitor and market leader, Zayo Group, which is based in Boulder, Colo., and has clients throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe and Japan.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough is buying a Rochester, N.Y.-based competitor.

Lightower Fiber Networks has acquired Chicago data center provider ColocationZone, the Boxborough-based company said Wednesday.

Network services provider Lightower Fiber Networks said it has been awarded a master contract by the State of Maryland Department of Information Technology, authorizing the company to provide telecommunications services to state and municipal agencies, including school districts, public colleges and hospitals, public purchasing cooperatives, and nonprofit organizations.