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===Merging with Hasbro=== Tiger Electronics has been part of the [[Hasbro]] toy company since 1998.<ref>{{cite web|first=Dave|last=Nachison|url=http://www.fool.com/news/1999/kide990824.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991129053541/http://www.fool.com/news/1999/kide990824.htm|title=Sacre Bleu! It's Pokémon!|website=.fool.com|archive-date=November 29, 1999|date=August 24, 1999|access-date=July 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Joseph|last=Pereira|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB887032398301659000|title=Hasbro Will Buy Giga Pets Maker, Announce Partnership With Intel|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=February 10, 1998|access-date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> Hasbro paid approximately $335 million for the acquisition.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Hasbro to Buy Game.com Maker |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=106 |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |date=May 1998|page=23}}</ref> In 2000, Tiger was licensed to provide a variety of electronics with the [[Yahoo!]] brand name, including [[digital camera]]s, [[webcam]]s, and a "Hits Downloader" that made music from the Internet ([[mp3]]s, etc.) accessible through Tiger's assorted "[[HitClips]]" players.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.altaba.com/static-files/083516d5-9a4f-496d-adcb-eda59401bf83|title=Tiger Electronics And Yahoo! Team To Create Innovative, Technology-Based Lifestyle Products|website=altaba.com|date=February 7, 2000|access-date=July 4, 2019}}</ref> Tiger also produces the long-lasting [[iDog]] Interactive Music Companion, the ZoomBox—a portable 3-in-1 home entertainment projector that will play DVDs, CDs and connects to most gaming systems—, the [[VideoNow]] personal video player, the VCamNow digital [[camcorder]], the [[ChatNow]] line of kid-oriented [[two-way radio]]s and the TVNow, a personal handheld DVR player. They released an electronic tabletop version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' with voice recordings by host [[Chris Tarrant]]. Tiger also released an electronic version of ''[[The Weakest Link]]'' with voice recordings by [[Anne Robinson]].
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