33 Small Businesses Picked to Get Devices, Support in Qualcomm Pandemic Program

Qualcomm Technologies’ “accelerator program,” formed in June with broad tech industry support to help small businesses convert to a post-pandemic “mobile-first work environment” (see 2006110040), picked 33 companies, each to receive $25,000 worth of connected devices and services to suit their individual needs, said the chipmaker Monday. Qualcomm got more than 375 applications to the program, and the 33 businesses it picked “span the healthcare, education, crisis response, arts, environmental services, and other industries,” it said. Most identified as women-, minority- or veteran-owned, it said.