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Canadian companies scoop up U.S. competition in 1994

It's surprising news in the world of cross-border business: Canadian investment in U.S. companies is growing at a remarkable rate.  As we see in this CBC Venture report, Kevin O'Leary's software company Softkey has now become North America's second largest home software publisher, second only to Microsoft, with the takeover of not one, but two U.S. companies. 
•In 1995 Softkey went on to acquire The Learning Company and then Broderbund, and eventually was bought out by Mattel.  As of 2012, Kevin O'Leary is the chairman of O'Leary Funds, and is known to CBC viewers as on of the stars of CBC television's Dragon's Den and The Lang and O'Leary Exchange.
Medium: Television
Program: Venture
Broadcast Date: Mar. 6, 1994
Guest(s): Dusanka Filipovic, Doug MacKay, Alan Rugman, Randall Morck, Kevin O'Leary
Host: Robert Scully
Reporter: Deborah Lamb
Duration: 6:08

Last updated: November 16, 2012

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