Discovery Communications to Acquire HowStuffWorks.com
15th Oct 2007
Discovery Communications today announced that it has agreed to acquire Howstuffworks.com, a leading online source of high quality, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.
HowStuffWorks' 11 million global monthly unique visitors, which have grown 25% over the past year, have access to an extensive and rapidly growing library of deep and broad content designed to deliver the most relevant information possible. In addition to an editorial team that creates new content every day, HowStuffWorks leverages the exclusive digital rights to over 30,000 books, 800,000 images and more than 180,000 maps as it explains the world from brains to bats, from rocket engines to roller coasters, from hybrid cars to HDTV, and countless other topics.
HowStuffWorks is regularly cited as a trustworthy source, earning widespread recognition including multiple Webby awards, Time magazine's "25 Websites We Can't Live Without" in 2006 and 2007, and PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times including in 2007.
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