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 ...

For Discovery Communications Inc., the website HowStuffWorks.com proved to be one investment in digital media that didn't work. Discovery said Monday it would sell the site, which offers explanations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A popular website best known for do-it-yourself videos is branching out into comedy. HowStuffWorks has lured Cracked.com founder ...

After who, what, when, where and why, there's the often forgotten question "how"? That's where Atlanta-based HowStuffWorks.com comes in. How does digital television work? How is beer made? How do you ...

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 & ...

The minds behind the popular podcast brand HowStuffWorks have a new season dedicated to the elephant in the room that is United States right now: a deeply divided nation. But this 18-minute chapter ...

NEW YORK HowStuffWorks.com, an online how-to repository, said it has received an investment from financier Carl Icahn worth “tens of millions of dollars.” Atlanta-based HowStuffWorks plans to use the ...

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 has acquired reference site HowStuffWorks.com, the company said Monday. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav called the deal a “bulls-eye” for Discovery, saying that the ...

Discovery Communications Inc., looking to jump-start a stalled Internet strategy, agreed to acquire the HowStuffWorks.com Web site for $250 million. Discovery, owner of cable channels such as ...