Hopkinton

The $67 billion acquisition of EMC by Texas-based Dell has been cleared by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, paving the way for the largest IT merger in U.S. history.

Reports are coming in that the proposed $67-billion acquisition of Hopkinton-based EMC by Dell is set to receive approval from the European Union.

A clean energy purchasing program launched by the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island has received numerous Central Massachusetts bids to deliver clean energy.

The Boston Athletic Association has paid $1.2 million for a home near the start of the Boston Marathon Start line in Hopkinton.

Officials at EMC Corporation of Hopkinton said its merger with Dell is on track, as the company released its fourth quarter financial results and announced substantial layoffs at its subsidiary VMware.

The cloud storage company VMware has announced 800 employees will be laid off and a new chief financial officer will come in as its parent company, EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, prepares for an impending merger with Dell.

The Boroughs+ Economic Development Summit set for Tuesday will tackle transportation issues affecting MetroWest with a panel discussion of local experts set to deconstruct the topic of transportation throughout the boroughs.

As Massachusetts lawmakers debate this month whether to raise the net-metering cap on solar, utility National Grid...

Hopkinton data storage firm EMC Corp. has appointed Chad Sakac as the president of its renamed VCE division, in the hopes he can create synergies with the rest of the corporation.

The acquisition of Hopkinton-based EMC Corp. by Dell Inc. has made it through the “go shop” period with no outside acquisition proposals coming in to unseat the approximately $67-billion purchase, according to EMC.