{"id":1204,"date":"2023-07-14T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2023-07-14T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T00:20:05","slug":"best-buy-bought-the-company-behind-senior-friendly-jitterbug-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy bought the company behind senior-friendly JitterBug phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Yesterday, Best Buy announced that it paid $800 million to services as it moves away from focusing exclusively on media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition is a manifestation of the Best Buy 2020 strategy to enrich lives through technology by addressing key human needs,&#8221; read the company&#8217;s press release announcing the acquisition. The company claimed it&#8217;s specifically focusing on catering to the growing needs of the aging population with technology products: GreatCall&#8217;s emergency service lets subscribers summon help through a selection of devices, including the Jitterbug phones. But Best Buy lays this acquisition as part of a greater strategy that includes participation from health care providers and insurers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, we have a great opportunity to serve the needs of these customers by combining GreatCall&#8217;s expertise with Best Buy&#8217;s unique merchandising, marketing, sales and services capabilities,&#8221; Best Buy chairman and CEO Hubert Joly said in the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Best Buy announced that it paid $800 million to services as it moves away from focusing exclusively on media. &#8220;The acquisition is a manifestation of the Best Buy 2020 strategy to enrich lives through technology by addressing key human needs,&#8221; read the company&#8217;s press release announcing the acquisition. The company claimed it&#8217;s specifically focusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[432,953,495,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}