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Free Metro rides on New Year's Eve
WMATA officially approved an offer by MillerCoors to pay for all Metro and Metrobus rides in D.C. between midnight and 3 a.m. on Jan.1. Basically, you swipe in and out of Metro as usual, but you won't be charged. On a bus, you can just show your card to the driver. Read more about it from WMATA here.
SpaceX rival ULA reignited by Congress
- SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance has a new lease on life thanks to the omnibus spending bill in Congress. The new budget includes a provision ending the ban on American companies buying the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engines, which ULA uses. ULA, a company formed by a partnership between Lockheed-Martin and Boeing. recently had to bow out entirely from competing with SpaceX for a Pentagon launch contract after Elon Musk and his team convinced a court that buying those engines violates the sanctions the U.S. put into place due to Russia's actions in Ukraine. Read more about what happened (and why Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) is so upset) in our full story.
Waze with wings
- A group of Geoge Mason students are looking to make air travel a little less stressful during the holidays with a crowdsourcing Waze-esque app for things like flight delays and security line estimates. Find out about Fleet in Chris Bing's report.
Apple's App Store savior?
- Apple is making a flurry of personnel moves, but everyone's paying close attention to Phil Schiller, who will now officially oversee the App Store across all of Apple's platforms. Schiller, the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, will have to coordinate more than 11 million developers on four platforms, but can he make them, and the customers eager to get on to the App store?
The 2016 IPO outlook
- 2016 could see a burst of tech IPOs in the region. Chris Bing takes a look at the 13 expected IPOs you should keep an eye on, while Brian Warmoth breaks down what you should know about the IPO storm coming.
