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Micronetics Inc., a Hudson-based defense subcontractor and one of the few small public companies still based in New Hampshire, will be acquired by the much larger Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass., for about $75.4 million, Mercury announced on…

Micronetics Inc. ended up its fiscal year with $3.4 million in net income -- 74 cents a diluted share -- more than doubling the net profits it earned in 2011 and continuing its comeback from a disastrous loss in 2009.The…

Lawmakers should take a careful look at the mess caused by loose laws governing mortgage transfers and foreclosures, says Kelley Monahan, Grafton County's register of deeds. And Monahan is going to give them an opportunity to do just that in…

New Hampshire's real gross domestic product growth kept pace with the national rate in 2011, although the state's rate of growth was almost two-thirds lower than a year earlier.New Hampshire's real GDP grew 1.5 percent in 2011, which was also…

The number of jobs in New Hampshire may be growing in fits and starts, but there is no doubt that the number of bankruptcy filings continues to shrink steadily.Some 343 households and business filed for bankruptcy in May, 19.5 percent…

Just how friendly is New Hampshire to small businesses? Pretty friendly, according to yet another report that ranks the state's small business climate.New Hampshire is the nation's eighth-friendliest state for doing business and the fifth-friendliest state in which to start…

Two surveys released this week both give New Hampshire relatively high marks when it comes to its licensing requirements and costs.The Institute for Justice, which describes itself as the nation's "only libertarian public interest law firm" surveyed all states' laws…

Monadnock Community Bank of Peterborough is on its way to being acquired by a Massachusetts credit union -- the first publicly traded bank to do so.Shareholders of Monadnock Bancorp Inc. overwhelmingly approved the $6.4 million sale of the bank to…