your funding.” Sale to Gores Technology Group On April 3, 2000, Mattel announced its plan to dissolve its assets related to the software business. Gores Technology Group acquired The Learning Company to create their entertainment, productivity and education divisions, which became GAME Studios, The Learning Company, and Broderbund respectively. GAME Studios was sold to Ubisoft in 2001. Gores subsequently sold most of the other holdings – including the edutainment series and the brand name The Learning Company – to Irish company Riverdeep Interactive Learning, which later became Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Harcourt released several book sets under The Learning Company brand umbrella, including Oregon Trail Adventures, The Little Box of Love, and The Little Box of Laughs. As of April 2018, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has ceased using the Learning Company brand. List of acquisitions February 1994 – WordStar International and Spinnaker Software June 1994 – Aris Multimedia Entertainment July 1994 – Compact Publishing September 1995 – Software Marketing Corporation July 1995 – Tewi Verlag GmbH August 1995 – Future Vision Holding December 1995 – The Learning Company December 1995 – Compton's NewMedia Late 1995 – EduSoft May 1996 – Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) October 1997 – Microsystems Software December 1997 – Creative Wonders March 1998 – Mindscape August 1998 – Broderbund Software titles References External links Defunct software companies of the United States Mattel subsidiaries