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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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.

A popular website best known for do-it-yourself videos is branching out into comedy. HowStuffWorks has lured Cracked.com founder Jack O’Brien to create a new division with the intent of extending the ...

Holly Frey is a top host and producer for iHeartRadio and its slate of HowStuffWorks podcasts. Frey started out as a copywriter for the HowStuffWorks website, but quickly established herself as a ...

HowStuffWorks Inc., a company that explains the science behind everything from Brussels sprouts to the Big Bang, is moving its Atlanta headquarters to the former Sears, Roebuck & Co. building.

Hoch shared, “The belief that all of the talent lies in New York and Los Angeles is simply not true. Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art and Design and Georgia State are close by and the talent they ...