Organizations representing hundreds of technology firms in Massachusetts to combine forces

Groups representing Mass. tech firms to merge

Acme Packet posts higher third-quarter profit on stronger sales

Higher revenue widens Acme Packet’s 3Q profit

Vermont city council votes to suspend chief administrative officer over telecom dispute

Vt. city council votes to suspend admin. officer

Man pleads guilty to having child pornography on computer at border

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.

18-year-old sentenced to prison, will serve 3 months in Vermont’s first ’sexting’ case

BURLINGTON, Vt. — An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday in Vermont’s first “sexting” case, in which he allegedly directed two teenage girls to videotape or photograph themselves performing sex acts and send him the results.

iBasis sues to stop Royal KPN’s tender offer, which it calls ‘grossly inadequate’

BURLINGTON, Mass. — iBasis Inc. said Tuesday it is suing its majority owner Royal KPN NV in an effort to stop a hostile takeover bid.

More Vermont church properties face liens to cover awards in priest sex abuse trials

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A judge has put liens on four church-owned rest homes and part of the Vermont Roman Catholic diocese’s investments in order to cover jury awards in two priest sex abuse cases.

For industrial towns where the recession arrived long ago, the road to recovery looks longer

BURLINGTON, N.C. — Tim Holt was among the men and women who wove fabric and prosperity here for generations, until the textile factories left town in a global manufacturing shift that the rest of the country hardly seemed to notice.

Partially tax-funded VT program lets high school students explore how gender is portrayed

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Like plenty of other high school students, a group of about a dozen Vermont teenagers trundled into a youth center one day every week this spring to participate in an after-school program.

No joy in Mudville, or Burlington: More than a century of baseball ends at Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt. — At Centennial Field, the sun was out, the infield grass freshly cut, the home team riding a six-game winning streak into a Tuesday afternoon doubleheader.

Leahy to return $1,000 Citigroup campaign donation

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will return a $1,000 campaign donation from Citigroup, the banking giant that has received $45 billion in federal bailout money.