The tangled history of Broderbund, which once gained fame and fortune by publishing Myst, Print Shop, the Carmen Sandiego series and other classics of family-oriented software, took another twist on ...

THE SOFTWARE started as a Hanukkah present to an 11-year-old girl in Washington state. It ended up as a lawsuit in Texas. On a visit to the Pacific Northwest last December, Scott Klippel of Austin, ...

Carmen Sandiego, meet Reader Rabbit: Broderbund Software Inc. will buy Learning Co. for about $440 million in a move that will expand Broderbund’s position in the educational software market.

Riverdeep Group PLC, which publishes educational software, announced late yesterday it has acquired Broderbund LLC of Novato, Calif., for $57.2 million. Broderbund publishes personal productivity ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Learning Co., the No. 1 education software maker, said yesterday that it will buy Broderbund Software Inc. for $420 million in stock, giving it the best-selling fantasy game, “Myst, ...

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She's currently lurking at The Strong museum in Rochester, New York. Broderbund Software founder Doug Carlston has donated company records, design documents and ...

The Good: A fun program to indulge your nesting instincts with 3D rendering. The Bad: The program tends to steer you to design a home similar to any that a mass-producing builder can offer; it also ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PrintMaster ® 2.0, the #1 selling consumer desktop publishing software under $40, is available on store shelves today. Completely redesigned from the ground up, ...

Broderbund has been acquired by its arch rival The Learning Company (TLC) in a deal worth $420 million, creating a consumer software giant. The acquisition was announced on 22 June, following weeks of ...

Riverdeep has acquired Broderbund, a personal productivity software publisher for the consumer and school markets. Irish educational software provider Riverdeep has agreed to pay Gores Technology ...