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By Sanchita Dash

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1. Uber enters the trailer leasing business through Powerloop. It will connect truckers with shippers by renting trailers to carriers.

2. Google Maps introduces real-time journey tracking feature for iPhones. It allows the users to share their location and routes with selected contacts.

3. Apple & Zimmer Biomet joins hands for a 10,000-patient Apple Watch study. It will use Apple Watch and iPhone app to help track patients through hip and knee replacement surgeries.

4. Brighter the moon, better the night. To make that happen, a Chinese space company is planning to build an artificial moon, eight times brighter than the real one.

Sanchita Dash

Entrepreneur Staff

Former Senior Correspondent, Entrepreneur India

In the business of news for 5 years now. Making my way across India thanks to my career. A media graduate from Symbiosis, Pune, I have earlier worked with Deccan Chronicle (South India's leading English daily), T-Hub (India's largest incubator) and Anthill Ventures (a speed-scaling platform). 

Stories, movies and PJs are my thing. 

If you hear 'The Office' opening score randomly, don't worry it's just my phone ringing. 

 

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