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May 19, 2015 06:06 pm GMT

Tech companies paid $3.2 million to Hillary Clinton so she could remind them to treat women better

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Tech companies have paid more for speeches from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton than any other industry since early 2014

Clinton has raked in $3.2 million from the tech sector over the last year-and-a-half, according to The Washington Post. And Clinton has talked about all sorts of things in front of tech audiences—from Edward Snowden to Ferguson—but she has emphasized two subjects in particular: generating opportunities for women in tech, and making sure Silicon Valley focuses on income inequality.

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Clinton has been paid to speak in front of eBay, Qualcomm, Nexenta, Cisco Systems, Salesforce.com, Xerox and more audiences since January, 2014. Many of those speeches were closed to the public and the press, but we've outlined her prominent messages from some of her more open speaking engagements, below Read more...

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