Technology

Two corporations with major presences in Central Massachusetts, the manufacturer Saint-Gobain and the tech company Dell Technologies, are among 310 businesses that signed a letter to President Joe Biden urging the United States to take more action to tackle climate change.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is launching a master’s degree program in cybersecurity, the school announced on Tuesday.

Geisel Software, Inc. of Worcester, a custom software development company, in conjunction with Arizona State University, has been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA, the groups announced together on Friday.

Medical optics firm Olympus Corp. has announced the completion of its new, 150,000-square-foot facility in Westborough.

Holliston biotechnology firm Harvard Bioscience returned to pre-COVID-19 revenue levels in the fourth quarter, but the company’s financial performance was still down overall for the year when compared to 2019.

Westborough’s Kopin Corp., a manufacturer of wearable technology, ended the year strong with a 60% fourth quarter year-over-year increase in revenue, as the company cut its annual net losses from $29.5 million in 2019 to $4.4 million in 2020.

Southborough life sciences firm Veristat has acquired British contract research company SQN Clinical in a move the company says will allow it to expand its European capacities.

Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp., a publicly-traded biotechnology firm, has closed its previously announced public offering of 2,246,784 shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $3.42 per share.

Natick machine vision systems and bar code reader manufacturer Cognex Corp. has announced that the company’s founder, Robert Shillman, will resign from the company’s board of directors and as an executive officer of Cognex. 

Information-technology company Virtusa, based in Southborough, has been acquired by financial services firm Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash purchase of all outstanding shares of common stock valued at $2 billion.