Westborough

Affordable Interior Systems, Inc. of Leominster, Quest Diagnostics of Marlborough, and Pall Life Sciences of Westborough were among 18 companies from across the state honored by MassEcon this week for their contributions to the economy.

NORESCO, an energy efficiency company based in Westborough, will implement a $3 million in energy improvements to seven schools at a district in northern California.

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The parent company of Berkshire Bank will acquire Springfield-based Hampden Bancorp in an all-stock deal valued at about $109 million, the companies announced today.

Business consulting and technology outsourcing company Virtusa of Westborough reported double-digit percentage gains in revenue and net income for the second quarter of its 2015 fiscal year Thursday.

Though it won't make its bread and butter delivering statistics on mobile device adoption, Westborough's Chitika Inc., an Internet advertising company, is hoping to boost brand awareness among consumers through its burgeoning insights division. Launched in 2010, Chitika Insights is the company's independent analysis arm. The division initially focused on web search traffic trends, but in 2012, began to migrate to the mobile device sphere, said Andrew Waber, marketing analyst at Chitika. Chitika doesn't charge for reports it issues based on these queries, but the years of work the 11-year-old company has put into collecting usage data is beginning to pay dividends. Top news outlets, like the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and the Wall Street Journal, have cited Chitika's statistics in recent reports on mobile device adoption, with Apple's iPhone 6 being the latest example.

The Porter and Chester Institute trade school will move its 40 employees and 225 students from two Westborough sites into a new Worcester location beginning in October, according to the organization.

ExaGrid Systems of Westborough said it's been awarded a new patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which will help the company advance its adaptive deduplication technology.

Data-storage giant EMC Corp. of Hopkinton held merger talks with technology giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell within the last year as it faced pressure from shareholders, The Wall Street Journal reported today. The Journal said EMC held on-again, off-again discussions with officials from Hewlett-Packard and, while those talks appear to be off now, it's not clear whether they will begin again. As for Dell, the WSJ cited people familiar with talks between the two firms, adding that it's not clear what the status of those talks are.