Discovery has moved to bolster its online content portfolio by acquiring HowStuffWorks for a reported $250m. The site, which was set up by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in ...

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Taking a significant loss, Discovery Communications is selling HowStuffWorks.com to Web services company Blucora. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Discovery is unloading the site for $45 million, ...

HowStuffWorks.com, a Discovery Communications property, is launching a new ad campaign with 17-year-old extreme athlete Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham, a wheelchair-bound athlete with spina bifida. The ...

Co announces that its largest shareholder, HowStuffWorks, had agreed to be acquired by Discovery Communications. HSW International will remain a separate company. The co will continue to hold ...

Discovery Communications has expanded its web presence with the acquisition of online knowledge repository HowStuffWorks for an estimated $250 million (E176m). Discovery will use HowStuffWorks to ...

(AP) The owner of cable networks Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet said Monday that it has agreed to sell information website HowStuffWorks to Blucora Inc. for $45 million. That’s far less than ...

In mid-October, Discovery Communications, owner of information-oriented cable channels like the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet, expanded its presence on the Internet by purchasing the ...