Google has rescinded more than 2,000 offers to people who had been assigned to work as temporary and contract workers for the company, the New York Times reported on Friday. A Google spokesperson told The Times, “As we’ve publicly indicated, we’re slowing our pace of hiring and investment, and as a result are not bringing on as many new people — full time and temporary — as we’d planned at the...
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Stripe in Talks to Raise Up to $3 Billion From Current Investors

Less than a week after telling employees that it would evaluate a public offering over the next year, payments giant Stripe is moving quickly on a deal to raise as much as $3 billion from its existing investors. The talks, which have heated up in recent days, are likely to value the company at between $55 billion and $60 billion, according to one person involved in the potential deal....
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