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    • Samsara, maker of sensors and GPS units for fleet vehicle management, raises $100M at $3.6B valuation from existing investors a16z and General Catalyst (Cheddar)

    Cheddar: Samsara, maker of sensors and GPS units for fleet vehicle management, raises $100M at $3.6B valuation from existing investors a16z and General Catalyst  —  Samsara, one of the hottest tech start-ups in the freight and logistics space, is raising $100 million in fresh funding, Cheddar has learned. Samsara, maker of sensors and GPS units

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    • Mark Zuckerberg posts year-end reflections on the issues that Facebook encountered in 2018 and its efforts to deal with them (Mark Zuckerberg)

    Mark Zuckerberg: Mark Zuckerberg posts year-end reflections on the issues that Facebook encountered in 2018 and its efforts to deal with them  —  For 2018, my personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing our community — whether that’s preventing election interference … Mark Zuckerberg posts year-end reflections

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    • Dell shares open at $46, giving the company a valuation of $16B in its return to public market, after Dell bought back shares tied to its interest in VMware (Aparajita Saxena/Reuters)

    Aparajita Saxena / Reuters: Dell shares open at $46, giving the company a valuation of $16B in its return to public market, after Dell bought back shares tied to its interest in VMware  —  (Reuters) – Dell Technologies Inc shares opened at $46 on Friday, giving the computer maker a valuation of $16 billion in

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    • China announces a global rollout of Beidou satellite navigation system a year ahead of schedule; Beidou has an accuracy of 5m in Asia-Pacific and 10m elsewhere (Sarah Dai/South China Morning Post)

    Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: China announces a global rollout of Beidou satellite navigation system a year ahead of schedule; Beidou has an accuracy of 5m in Asia-Pacific and 10m elsewhere  —  – Beidou’s location service has an accuracy of 5 metres in Asia-Pacific and 10 metres in other parts of the world

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    • Source: Grab has raised the fundraising target of its ongoing Series H round from the original $3B to $5B (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

    Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Source: Grab has raised the fundraising target of its ongoing Series H round from the original $3B to $5B  —  Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is aiming to start the new year with a bang and an awful load of bucks.  The company, which acquired Uber’s local business earlier this year

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