Mattel Skip-Bo. Mattel purchased Fisher-Price, Inc. in 1993, Tyco Toys, Inc. (owners of the Matchbox and Dinky Toys brands) in 1997, and Pleasant Company (maker of the American Girl brand) in 1998. Mattel purchased The Learning Company in 1999 for $3.5 billion, but sold it in 2000 at a loss. The company had a $430.9 million net loss that year. Mattel earned the first grant for Disney Princess doll licenses in 2000. In December 2000, Mattel sued the band Aqua, saying their song "Barbie Girl" violated the Barbie trademark and turned Barbie into a sex object, referring to her as a
IBM Retail Store Solutions Point of Sale Green Excellence of the Year award. Among its notable product achievements, IBM RSS was responsible for the creation of software such as the 4690 software, IRES. and POSS for DOS. On 17 April 2012, IBM announced a definitive agreement under which Toshiba TEC acquired IBM's Retail Store Solutions business. IBM IRES (IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX) offers proven retail functions such as those provided by IBM's 4690 features, such as Server-based POS loading and booting, Industry standard system-wide configuration and change management, Automatic problem determination with single-step dump button support, Combined server/terminal support, Client preload GUI