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 legacy software that works well with IBM PC DOS and that enables many IBM customer's from the 1980s. The latest publicly supported version is 2.2.0. IBM Retail Store Solutions IBM Retail Store Solutions was a division of IBM in the retail market segment. It had been in business for 30 years and had thousands of sales, technical and services professionals focused on all retail segments. It had several lines of product, both hardware and software. Hardware products include IBM SurePOS 700 point-of-sale systems or printers. There were software products which are under its portfolio such as IBM 4690, IRES (IBM