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Losses at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Marlborough deepened in its first quarter, as the cost of clinical trials for its macular degeneration treatments rose, the company said.

Saying a tough first quarter was expected, but that revenue still came in lower than anticipated, Framingham-based Ameresco Inc. recorded a decline in both revenue and net income for the period.

Westborough-based IT consulting, technology and outsourcing provider Virtusa Corp. continues to ride a wave of positive results, reporting increased revenue and profits for its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013, which ended March 31.

Westborough-based Kopin Corp., a mobile communications and micro display product company, reported mixed results for its first quarter of 2013, attributing a drop in revenue to fewer sales of military products.

Sales at the stores of Framingham-based TJX Cos. continued to rise in April, as the company reported a sales increase of 9 percent over last year, to $2 billion.

Baltimore-based Cordish Cos. has made its intentions clear. It hopes to win the state's sole slots license for a location in Boxborough.

The former Marist Retreat Center, the Framingham seminary made vacant after the Marist Fathers of Boston moved out in 2011, has found an interested buyer.

Cost of living in the nine-town stretch of MetroWest between Hopkinton and Natick ranks above that of Boston, according to a report released last week by Framingham State University. The school's MetroWest Economic Research Center (MERC) issued its cost of living index – which it gathers and shares with a national organization called C2ER that tracks national prices – last week at its 21st annual conference at the Verve Crowne Plaza in Natick.

Hopkinton-based information technology and storage giant EMC. Corp., the largest for-profit employer in Central Massachusetts, will eliminate 1,004 jobs this year as it terminates several property leases, it disclosed Friday in a public filing.