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DC Download: 50 on Fire Winners, DC Clean Tech Startups and Terry McAuliffe's Ambitious Quest



The 2015 50 on Fire DC winners
Clean tech startups in DC
  • The wonderful news from Paris that a major agreement to fight climate change has been reached is only the beginning. Happily, there are plenty of companies, large and small, with businesses built around improving the health of the planet. Check out eight of them from the area in our roundup.
McAuliffe wants to train cybersecurity experts for free
  • Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is making another major play to boost his state's tech sector with a new program to give free cybersecurity training at Commonwealth community colleges. Of course, you also have to work for the state for two years, but McAuliffe is betting plenty of people will see that as a great trade-off. Find out more about the new plan in Chris Bing's story/
Tesla's reliability questioned
  • Tesla Motors makes a big thing about being reliable, but a new report suggests that they might not be as endurable as Elon Musk claims. The bigger question is, will that actually matter to the legions of fans and investors in the company?

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