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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<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 9to5Google<\/em> shared the text of an email received by BlueJeans customers that said that \u201cwe have made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of BlueJeans products.\u201d BlueJeans\u2019 recently introduced free Basic plan<\/a> and free trial offerings will be discontinued on August 31st, according to the email. That email doesn\u2019t say how long people on BlueJeans\u2019 paid offerings will have access to the company\u2019s services. Verizon didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n BlueJeans was a huge acquisition for Verizon; when the deal was announced in April 2020<\/a>, CNBC reported that Verizon was going to pay around $400 million for the company<\/a>. 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\u2019t quite as hot as they used to be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n