Davidson & Associates

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Davidson & Associates


Fate	Merged into CUC International, Inc.


Successor	Knowledge Adventure
Founded	1989
Defunct	1996
Location	Torrance, CA
Industry	Educational software
Products	Blaster Learning System
Key people	Jack R. Allewaert Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Peak size	296^[1] employees

Davidson & Associates is an educational software company best known for the Blaster series, including Math Blaster and Reading Blaster. Bob and Jan Davidson sold the company in the early 1990s and founded the Davidson Institute for Talent Development - a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting profoundly gifted young people.

In 1989, Bob Davidson became Chairman and CEO of Davidson and Associates, Inc. Jan Davidson continued her role as President focusing on building the product development side of the business. In the next few years, Bob formed strategic partnerships with Fisher Price, Simon & Schuster, Kaplan, Inc. and made several strategic acquisitions, including Blizzard Entertainment with the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo products.^{[citation needed]} In the early 1990s, the company was acquired by Cendant and merged with another large educational software company, Knowledge Adventure best known for its JumpStart series of educational games.