Discovery Communications is selling the assets and operations of explainer site HowStuffWorks — which it bought for $250 million seven years ago — for $45 million in cash to digital-media firm Blucora ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A source familiar with the deal confirmed the price, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Reps for iHeartMedia declined to ...

Bellevue-based Blucora has bought HowStuffWorks, a website that explains the science behind everything from magnets to Silly String. Discovery Communications, whose cable channels include TLC and ...

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Digital media publisher HowStuffWorks is spinning out from parent company System1 as an independent podcast network with a $15 million Series A investment from The Raine Group, the company said on ...

Blucora continues to expand through acquisitions. The Bellevue company today announced that it’s buying HowStuffWorks from Discovery Communications, paying $45 million for the Internet’s how-to guide ...

iHeartMedia has agreed to acquire Stuff Media, the company that owns the HowStuffWorks podcasting business. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but both the Wall Street ...

HowStuffWorks has changed owners more than once in the past few years. Discovery sold the company to Blucora in 2014, and Blucora, in turn, sold it to digital advertising company System1 last year.

Discovery Communications, the American TV company in which media mogul John Malone has a majority stake, has moved to revitalise its web presence with the acquisition of online knowledge repository ...

The 2.0 bubble that everyone is scared to talk about, yet can’t stop talking about, still hasn’t burst as Atlanta based HowStuffWorks.com just raised an incredible $75 million from Capital Research & ...

WASHINGTON – By now, most people know that NASA’s Curiosity rover landed safely on the dusty surface of Mars after a grueling nine-month journey and a nail-biting ...

Doubling down on the podcasting business, iHeartMedia reached a deal to acquire podcast pioneer Stuff Media, which includes the HowStuffWorks podcasting business and a slate of 25 podcast shows, for ...