CHICAGO—GTCR, a private equity firm based here, today announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire GreatCall Inc, a large provider of PERS and cellular devices to seniors. GTCR has ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GreatCall, Inc., a leader in connected health for active aging and a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, introduces Lively Mobile Plus – a new medical alert device that ...

GreatCall, which sells phones and health services for older adults, is settling into a larger San Diego headquarters where staffers can take advantage of indoor-outdoor perks such as a studio-style ...

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 ...

San Diego-based GreatCall, acquired by Best Buy two months ago, said Tuesday that it has inked a five-year agreement with a Massachusetts health insurer to provide in-home health monitoring for ...

The Lively app by GreatCall gives older adults easy, one-touch access to 5Star Urgent Response service via Bluetooth to their smartphone when used with the Lively Wearable2 – an easy-to-wear, durable ...

Smartphone is a misnomer. What we’re all carrying around in our pockets are computers—small, complex computers, with so much capability, making calls is just a minor detail. But the truth is some ...

Health tech company GreatCall has launched a partnership with long-term care insurer CNA, a commercial property and casualty insurance company. Through the alliance, certain CNA policyholders who are ...

GreatCall announced this week the release of a mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) device 5Star Responder, as well as an accompanying Instant Response iPhone app that offers similar ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GreatCall, Inc., a leader in connected health for active aging and a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, announced today it’s opening a new caring center in San Antonio.

Smartphones here, smartphones there—how about a dumb phone? This week I tested the Jitterbug, a phone designed for the parents of baby boomers, a nice way of saying the only people who may not yet ...