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Article: Discovery to Acquire Kids' Site Yucky.com
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 31, 2000
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Discovery.com thinks it knows what kids want. And it's yucky.
The online arm of Bethesda-based Discovery Communications Inc.
will announce today that it is acquiring Yucky.com, a site with
science-related content for children that ranges from the merely
unusual to the downright gross. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
It comes as Discovery tries to expand its offerings--both on the
Internet and on its cable television channels--to attract more kids.
The sale of Yucky allows its current owner, Advance Internet Inc. of
Jersey City, a unit of Advance Publications, to focus more on its
core business of developing local Web portals.
The Yucky site includes interactive online games and other ...