The news earlier this week about Riverdeep merging with Houghton Mifflin is largely a financial out for Riverdeep. Still, the combination of content and technology assets makes a lot more sense than Houghton Mifflin’s previous hookup with Vivendi. At the least it wakes up the ed-tech space, at best it will increase competition by putting pressure on the other players in the market to increase educational technology product development investments.