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Global HR platform helping companies hire, pay and manage employees and contractors abroad via payroll, compliance and employer-of-record services.
Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110M for AI agents that source and screen job candidates. Its sourcing agent already works in Slack, so teams can trial it on one role before reorganizing recruiters.
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Amazon is recruiting laid-off staff again and Deel says its boomerang hires have doubled. In the national data, returners went from 3.1% to 3.4% of US new hires over two years. The measured reversal is 0.3 percentage points.
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Air Street Capital led $40 million into a hiring marketplace where an agent for the candidate and an agent for the employer must both agree before an introduction happens. The two have arranged 25,000 interviews so far.
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Wirex's card partners can now choose Tempo to move value behind their cards. The growth figures attached to the deal are run rates, and the first enterprise programs on the combined stack are still moving toward launch.
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SecurityWeek logged 33 cybersecurity acquisitions in August 2026. Two of them took technology assets out of small vendors instead of buying the vendors, and only Kiteworks' move into Japan promised customers unchanged contracts and pricing.
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A16z crypto traces the demand back to a 2002 deposit decree and a $200 monthly purchase cap, which means the product Argentines buy on these apps is dollar access, and access now costs about 4% more than the bank's.
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Managers carrying 20 reports and five hours of daily meetings are still expected to ship code, so the development hours went first. The bill arrives later, in retention and a thin internal bench.
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The June 2026 presumption turns an unplanned contractor base into a live liability, and the file a company would need to defend it mostly does not exist.
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Wet DBA enforcement resumed in 2025, serious-fault penalties returned in January 2026, and wage-tax assessments reach back 24 months. Classification is now a balance-sheet item.
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