It took barely a year for the rebooted Radio Shack -- now a front for Sprint, backed by the same hedge fund that lost its shirt investing in American Apparel -- to go bust again, despite a $50M line of credit and $25M in loans. (via /.)
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9:32 am Wed
Mar 8, 2017
Radio Shack is bankrupt. Again.
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