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Alt5 Sigma told regulators it learned in November its accountant had resigned, but the accountant says he stepped down three months earlier — a fresh discrepancy that marks the second apparently ...

An Apollo Global Management Inc. private credit fund deemed a loan to Medallia Inc. worth 77 cents on the dollar, a level typically considered distressed. A rival fund co-managed by Future Standard ...

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Retractable tape measures are easy to use, accurate, and cheap — usually no more than $20. But a Boston startup called Reekon Tools has given this 200-year-old technology a brain transplant. Reekon’s ...

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