Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend

Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/20/verizons-bluejeans-acquisition-is-about-more-than-the-work-from-home-trend/

It would be easy to assume that Verizon’s purchase last week of video-conferencing tool BlueJeans was an opportunistic move to capitalize on the sudden shift to remote work, but the ball began rolling last June and has implications far beyond current work-from-home requirements.

The video-chat darling of the moment is Zoom, but BlueJeans is considered by many to be the enterprise tool of choice. The problem, it seems, is that it had grown as far as it could on its own and went looking for a larger partner to help it reach the next level.