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Four new tenants will open this fall after signing leases with the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough, according to Ken Brown, area mall manager for the owner Simon Property Group.

Boston Scientific of Natick has agreed to buy the Lowell-based electrophysiology business of C.R. Bard for $275 million in cash, the company announced today.

Two Central Massachusetts manufacturers have entered into a licensing agreement that will combine some of their products for use in medicine and national security, according to one of the firms, Incom Inc. of Charlton.

Elevation Brands, a Framingham-based maker of allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods, has signed a partnership deal with Boston-based Slade Gorton to become a bigger source of those types of foods for suppliers and restaurant operators, the companies announced.

MassVentures, a quasi-public venture capital company, announced $2 million in grants for 15 Bay State firms, including two in Central Massachusetts.

Worcester County was among the majority of areas in the state that saw their unemployment rate tick up slightly in May, rising to 7.5 percent, up 0.5 of a percentage point from April, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Datawatch Corp. of Chelmsford keeps its edge in the business analytics software industry by offering a scope of services that eclipses those offered by other software firms, and its recent move to acquire a Swedish software company Panopticon Software's will widen its lead on competitors, President and CEO Michael Morrison said in a recent interview.

The MetroWest Accountable Healthcare Organization (MetroWest AHO), an alliance of more than 220 MetroWest physicians formed to negotiate with health insurers and payors, has received a $75,000 grant to help the organization connect to the state health insurance information exchange, the Mass HIway.

Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems will be acquired by Tenet Healthcare Corp., a Dallas-based health care services company, the organizations announced Monday.

Marlborough's Solomon Pond Mall is one of 13 Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG) malls in New England that will soon offer a way for customers to charge their electronics on site.