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Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400
million

Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400
million

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Verizon's big BlueJeans deal seems to have been a bust.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video
games, and virtual worlds. He's submitted several accepted emoji
proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Aug 8, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC|

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Verizon is shutting down BlueJeans, its Zoom competitor it acquired
in the early days of the covid pandemic, as reported by 9to5Google.

9to5Google shared the text of an email received by BlueJeans
customers that said that "we have made the difficult decision to
sunset our suite of BlueJeans products." BlueJeans' recently
introduced free Basic plan and free trial offerings will be
discontinued on August 31st, according to the email. That email
doesn't say how long people on BlueJeans' paid offerings will have
access to the company's services. Verizon didn't immediately reply to
a request for comment.

BlueJeans was a huge acquisition for Verizon; when the deal was
announced in April 2020, CNBC reported that Verizon was going to pay
around $400 million for the company. At the time, videoconferencing
companies like Zoom and BlueJeans were seeing increased usage during
the pandemic, but now that many companies have implemented policies
bringing workers back to the office, virtual collaboration apps
aren't quite as hot as they used to be.

Zoom, by the way, is asking some of its staff to return to the office
.

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