News Corp. Buys God / Jossip

News Corp. Buys God

Or Rather, A Website about God

Word on the intranets is that News Corp. has bought up Beliefnet.com, the spiritual website that won the General Excellence Online Ellie in 2007 in May. Numbers are not yet available, but News Corp. should have some liquid capital since their deal with LinkedIn is a no-go. A source close to the companies told Reuters that News Corp. is not in talks to buy LinkedIn for $1 billion.

Well, either way: A website about God and a social networking site without incriminating photos are equally useless to us.

Dec 4, 2007 · Link · 2 Responses

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Tagged: Beliefnet.com, LinkedIn, News Corp.

Comments (2)

No. 1 Zindia says:

So word on -gawker- is that ya’ll were recipients #5, 6, and 11 on a massive emailing about this news event that was accidentally not BCC’d, and that a whole reportoire of responding ensued. Too good to comment on the big boys, Jossip?

Posted: Dec 4, 2007 at 11:51 am

No. 2 debbie says:

Only if your definition of “the big boys” involves a banal communication between the likes of Ian Spiegelman, Julia Allison, Andy Borowitz and Mediabistro’s intern.

Posted: Dec 4, 2007 at 12:09 pm