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		<title>Exclusive: The (Digital) End Is Nigh&#8211;News Corp. Unloading Beliefnet and Considering Jettisoning Jamba/Jamster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beliefnet, the spirituality site bought by News Corp. in late 2007, is being shopped around for sale, according to several sources.

Sources said that the media giant is also considering selling off Berlin-based Jamba/Jamster, a mobile content provider now called Fox Mobile Group. News Corp. paid $187.5 million to VeriSign for a 51 percent stake in Jamba in 2006 and bought the rest in 2008.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/05/end-nigh-245x300.jpg" alt="" title="end-nigh" width="245" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-28968" /></p>
<p>Beliefnet, the spirituality site bought by News Corp. in late 2007, is being shopped around for sale, according to several sources.</p>
<p>Sources said that the media giant is also considering selling off Berlin-based Jamba/Jamster, a mobile content provider now called <a href="http://www.jamster.com/corp/about-us/facts-figures/">Fox Mobile Group</a>. News Corp. (NWS) paid $187.5 million to VeriSign (VRSN) for a 51 percent stake in Jamba in 2006 and bought the rest in 2008.</p>
<p>Founded by Steve Waldman and Robert Nylen in 1999, <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com">Beliefnet</a> is a social networking site focused on religious, spiritual and faith-based issues, with $7 million in venture funding from Softbank Capital, as well as an initial angel investor round.</p>
<p>While its users skew Christian, the site offers blogs, news and other services related to Islam, Judaism and many other faiths, in addition to Christianity.</p>
<p>Its motto: &#8220;Our mission is to help people like you find, and walk, a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness.&#8221;</p>
<p>The site was bought for an undisclosed sum by News Corp.&#8217;s Fox Entertainment Group as part of the Fox Digital Media unit. The digital strategy was to distribute some of its religious-based content on Beliefnet.</p>
<p>News Corp. has recently sold off some of the digital purchases it had made several years ago, such as its <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100104/first-ma-of-2010-flixster-rotten-tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes site to Flixster</a> in a stock-trading deal.</p>
<p>Interestingly, Beliefnet&#8217;s Waldman is now senior adviser on the future of media and information technology to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.</p>
<p>Jamba was founded by Germany&#8217;s Samwer Brothers. On its Web site, News Corp. said it eventually bought it out entirely and &#8220;aligned the company&#8217;s business strengths with the global market opportunities in mobile entertainment, enabling it to underline its leadership in mobile content distribution, licensing and production as well as offering its customer a broad and up-to-date portfolio of mobile entertainment content further on.&#8221;</p>
<p>A News Corp. spokeswoman declined to comment on either Beliefnet or Jamba.</p>
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		<title>Christian the Lion Online Videos to Leap to the Multiplex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Sony Pictures apparently wants to make a movie from the story of the two men who bought a lion from London's Harrods department store, it's a good time to replay one of the many online videos of their reunion a year after they had released him into the wild in Africa.

Although the event took place in 1971, the videos of the meeting with Christian the Lion have been hugely popular on YouTube, with millions of views.]]></description>
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<p>Since <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0547685920080905">Sony Pictures apparently wants to make a movie</a> from the story of the two men who bought a lion from London&#8217;s Harrods department store, it&#8217;s a good time to replay one of the many online videos of their reunion a year after they released him into the wild in Africa.</p>
<p>Although the event took place in 1971, the videos of the meeting with Christian the Lion have been hugely popular on YouTube, with millions of views.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one of the videos:</p>
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		<title>GodTube: 9 Rules for Dating My Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an amazingly hip and funny video from the Sermon Series on Families at North Point Church of Springfield, Mo., posted on GodTube. GodTube, which describes itself as a Christian video-driven social-networking site, &#8220;where users find inspiration, interact, chat, share and upload&#8221; Christian video, has about 2 million users per month. GodTube also lets [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an amazingly hip and funny video from the Sermon Series on Families at <a href="http://www.northpointnow.org ">North Point Church</a> of Springfield, Mo., posted on <a href="http://www.godtube.com">GodTube</a>.<br />
<img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/05/k226035152.jpg' alt='godtube' /></p>
<p>GodTube, which describes itself as a Christian video-driven social-networking site, &#8220;where users find inspiration, interact, chat, share and upload&#8221; Christian video, has about 2 million users per month.</p>
<p>GodTube also lets churches stream sermons and other events live on its &#8220;Godcaster&#8221; subscription service.</p>
<p>Also, its motto is &#8220;Broadcast Him,&#8221; but GodTube also calls itself &#8220;Jesus 2.0.&#8221; <em>Get it?</em></p>
<p>Perhaps more in the holy-grail territory, GodTube just nabbed $30 million this week in funding from GLG Partners (GLG), which is also an investor in the less-holy Glam Media site, <a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hoping-for-ungodly-returns-christian-video-sharing-site-godtube-gets-30/">according to paidContent</a>.</p>
<p>That gives the Dallas-based GodTube a $150 million valuation, putting it right up there with other miraculous start-up valuations like <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080506/another-web-20-superfunding-spot-runner-gets-51-million-more/">yesterday&#8217;s $500 million valuation for the online ad agency Spot Runner</a>.</p>
<p>Praise the VC (and, for GodTube fans, JC too)!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the North Point Church video on GodTube:<br />
<embed src="http://godtube.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="viewkey=2897366438a1633d159c" wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="330" height="270" name="godtube" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed></p>
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