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Intel, IBM to spend $300M with women-owned businesses in three years

By TechTaffy Desk

Intel and IBM (along with pharma giant Pfizer) has pledged to spend an additional $300 million with women-owned businesses over the next three years.

The companies partnered with WeConnect, a global network that connects women-owned businesses to buyers around the world, and the pledge follows a campaign by WeConnect and Global Citizen, an organization that fights poverty, to buy more from women-owned businesses and calling on companies to commit as well, according to a media statement from WeConnect.

[Image courtesy: WeConnect]

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