| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.09.2020 | Best Buy Health Launches Phone for Seniors w/ Amazon Alexa Voice Services | What You Should Know:
– GreatCall, a division of Best Buy Health launches Lively Flip phone for seniors, with new voice capabilities via Amazon Alexa.
– The Lively Flip is the next evolution of the Jitterbug, designed to help older adults s... |
| 27.02.2020 | Best Buy Launches New Medical Alert Device & App for Seniors | – Today, Best Buy Health launched its new Lively app and medical alert device, the Lively Wearable2 designed to help older adults live safely, actively and independently.
– The new Lively app gives older adults easy, one-touch access to urg... |
| 23.04.2019 | Lively Mobile Plus wearable gives seniors LTE and 80 hours of fall detection | Medical peace of mind has become a major selling point for wearables, and there’s no more vulnerable community than senior citizens — adults who can generally live on their own, yet might require medical assistance at any given moment. Cate... |
| 24.08.2018 | Best Buy scoops up GreatCall from private equity firm for $800M | Back in 2015, GreatCall snapped up Lively, a maker of a home health platform for seniors. In 2016, it acquired Healthsense, a home monitoring startup that places wireless sensors in living spaces to monitor patients at home and in skilled n... |
| 16.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday August 16 | THE NEW WEALTH OF NETWORKS
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. In today’s guest column, Floodgate partner Mike Maples explores how the tech community can harness the power of connections in a world of “networked capitalism.”
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| 03.05.2018 | Your Doctor’s Visits Will Change Forever With These New Technologies | Maybe you’ve seen one of those Norman Rockwell paintings of kids in a physician’s office that make it seem as if taking your child to the doctor is an oil-painted slice of Americana.
In reality, a pediatrician’s office can be a nightmarish ... |
| 08.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 8 | You’ll Laugh! Cry! (Maybe Buy.)
Below is my column from the latest issue of Fortune. Apologies if this concept sounds a tiny bit familiar to dedicated Term Sheet readers…
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| 07.06.2017 | GreatCall acquired by private equity firm GTCR | GreatCall, the San Diego company that started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products for aging in place individuals, has been acquired by Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR. The am... |
| 07.06.2017 | Connected health and safety business for seniors, GreatCall, finds exit door in private equity deal | GTCR Managing Director David Donnini commented in the news release that technology enabling seniors to live independently at home for longer both significantly improves their quality of life and reduces the cost to care for them.”
For his p... |
| 20.12.2016 | GreatCall Acquires Radius Ventures-backed Healthsense | GreatCall Inc., the leader in connected health for active aging, has acquired Healthsense, the leading provider of passive remote monitoring services for the senior care continuum. The acquisition greatly expands GreatCall’s portfolio of co... |
| 13.08.2016 | 4 things that are shaping the wearables market | Cognitive coaching IBM and Under Armour embarked on a partnership to harness IBM Watson Health’s artificial intelligence capabilities to provide personalized advice to people using Under Armour’s Connected Fitness apparel items. It’s not a ... |
| 01.08.2016 | The drivers behind digital health apps | Dr. Vish Banthia Contributor
Vish Banthia is CEO of ZendyHealth.
There has been an explosion of digital health startups in recent years. The market is expected to reach $233.3 billion by 2020, with the primary driver coming from the mobile ... |
| 22.06.2016 | EY Names 6 Startup Leaders as San Diego Entrepreneurs of the Year | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over... |
| 03.12.2015 | GreatCall Acquires Connected Home Health Platform Lively | San Diego, CA-based connected health provider for active aging GreatCall Inc. has acquired the technology assets of connected home health platform Lively Inc. The asset acquisition will strengthen GreatCall’s connected health portfolio and ... |
| 14.02.2015 | 4 ways healthcare is putting artificial intelligence, machine learning to use | Medication adherence AiCure uses mobile technology and facial recognition to determine if the right person is taking a given drug at the right time. It uses mobile devices to capture patient data from an application. It uses automated algor... |
| 21.01.2015 | How tech is helping seniors live at home, not in a home | This sponsored post is produced in association with Humana.
Most seniors would like to remain independent, and continue to live in their own home as long as possible. It’s important that they can do so in a safe way. Technology can help eas... |
| 21.01.2015 | How tech is helping seniors live at home, not in a home | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This sponsored post is produced in association with Humana.
Most seniors would like to remain independent, and continue to live in thei... |
| 17.03.2014 | Idea guy vs. the implementer: Two tech CEOs disagree on the promise of digital health | Jones had an easy start: showing off all the cool health gadgets. Who wouldn’t be impressed by the Scanadu?
“Track all your vitals with a scanner the size of a hockey puck that costs only $199.”
Alive Cor’s EKG monitor for iPhones is cool a... |
| 22.06.2012 | GreatCall Receives $7M Venture Loan from NXT Capital Venture Finance | GreatCall Inc., a San Diego, CA-based developer of health and wellness wireless services, has received a $7m subordinated venture loan from NXT Capital Venture Finance.
The company intends to use the additional capital to expand its portfol... |
| 14.05.2012 | Remember Jitterbug Phones For Seniors? Here’s The iPad Equivalent | Remember Jitterbug, the big-buttoned phones for seniors that made using those confusing, new-fangled cellphone thingies so much easier to handle? Well it looks like someone has gone out and built the equivalent for the iPad. Which literally... |
| 24.06.2008 | GreatCall raises $38 million for simple Jitterbug cell phones | GreatCall has built a business bucking the trend of feature-rich cell phones that are getting to be as complex as computers. Its Jitterbug phone is aimed at people who only want one simple thing out their phones — to make calls.
The Del Mar... |
| 24.06.2008 |
GreatCall Raises $38M In Third Round
| Del Mar-based GreatCall, which operates the Jitterbug mobile phone service, said this morning that the firm has raised $38M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Court Square Ventures, and included existing investors Steelpoint ... |
| 21.02.2007 | Jitterbug, which sells phones for elderly, raises $5M | Jitterbug, a Del Mar, Calif. company that targets elderly users (aged 55+) of cell-phones, offering phones with big buttons and simple, clear screens, has raised $5 million from Nauta Capital, a Spanish venture capital firm.
The phones are ... |
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| - | 4 things that are shaping the wearables market | In the past few years the wearables sector has been a hive of activity, but it feels like this year things have accelerated, particularly in the realm of health and wellness. A report by Forrester Research projected that 29 percent of Ameri... |
| - | Medical gear seeks help when sensors detect falls | COURTESY BAY ALARM MEDICAL
Medical alert systems are popular products for seniors who live alone. One option that offers both home and mobile alerts is Bay Alarm Medical, with fees starting at $30 per month for a home landline system.
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| - | Best Buy scoops up GreatCall from private equity firm for $800M | Private equity firm GTCR has signed an agreement to sell GreatCall, a health IT company, to Best Buy for $800 million in cash. The deal is anticipated to close in the third quarter of this year.
Based in San Diego, GreatCall provides health... |
| - | Idea guy vs. the implementer: Two tech CEOs disagree on the promise of digital health | I wasn’t expecting the day to start off with a point/counterpoint about the state of digital health.
Two tech leaders in San Diego gave completely opposite assessments on Thursday at the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit.
Don Jones, the ch... |
| - | Connected health and safety business for seniors, GreatCall, finds exit door in private equity deal | illuminated exit sign.
GreatCall, a San Diego company that developed connected health and safety devices to help seniors age in place, has been snapped up by private equity firm GTCR.
Although the transaction amount was not disclosed, GTCR ... |
| - | 4 ways healthcare is putting artificial intelligence, machine learning to use | Artificial intelligence and concerns over the long term consequences has come up again in the news week in the form of a Scientific American blog musing over how artificial intelligence will evolve — “Is AI Dangerous? It Depends…” There is ... |
