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Fox Entertainment Group acquires Beliefnet

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beliefnet.pngFox Entertainment Group (FEG) announced its acquisition of Beliefnet, a website that enables consumers to better understand their faith and build diverse spiritual communities by providing content and tools for a broad range of religions and spiritual approaches. Beliefnet, the largest online faith and spirituality destination, will become part of Fox Digital Media, spearheaded by President Dan Fawcett, which takes on an expanded role to support FEG’s vast cable, TV and film brands online, and drive FEG’s continued growth in the online market.

The acquisition provides Beliefnet with vast resources to further build and enhance its already popular brand. It also offers an online platform for FEG to distribute content from its extensive media library and for News Corp. to expand its faith-based businesses, including HarperCollins’ Zondervan and HarperOne brands, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s faith-based programming initiative.

Beliefnet provides devotional tools, access to the best spiritual teachers in the world, thought-provoking commentary and a portfolio of web-based social networking tools to enable a supportive community surrounding each person’s unique spiritual principles and beliefs.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 12:33 pm

Social shopping site Wikidealz.com launches in time for buying season

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wikidealz.pngWikidealz.com, a free community-based shopping website announced is launch in time for consumers to take advantage of its powerful user-driven model and get the best holiday deals.

The value of Wikidealz.com comes from social networking, where users share information about online shopping deals with groups of deal-savvy individuals and the internet shopping community at large. This user-generated wiki content, combined with the site’s easy search capabilities, ensures that shoppers have an efficient and high-quality shopping experience.

In addition to providing top-notch shopping, Wikidealz.com also benefits those who share deals with the user community. Wikidealz.com allows consumers who already spend considerable time researching the best online bargains to easily share them, and get paid to do so. Members earn cash when they post deals that lead to sales from participating Wikidealz.com retailers.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

T: The New York Times Style Magazine launches web site with blog to feature news in style and luxury

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t.pngT: The New York Times Style Magazine launched NYTimes.com/TMagazine, an online publication that reinvents the magazine in a digital format and also provides a daily presence on the web for T readers. The site will feature “The Moment,” a blog posting up-to-the-minute fashion and style news and discoveries by T editors and prominent outside contributors. The highly anticipated luxury site brings the visually rich content of T magazine to a larger, global audience. The quality journalism of T’s articles and photography will be coupled with Flash-based interactive content and original videos. The debut of the site coincides with the December launch of T Magazine in the International Herald Tribune.

The T: Magazine Web site was engineered by the New York-based agency createthe group, which was recently featured in an article in W magazine and is the leading agency behind sites for some of the world’s foremost luxury brands.

Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 6:01 am

Cambridge to launch eBook Collections

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cambridge.pngIn response to the growing demand for digital resources from academic institutions, Cambridge University Press will launch its own ebook product, Cambridge eBook Collections. The initial release of Cambridge eBook Collections, available to Asia Pacific only, will include specialist collections of humanities, science and business ebooks.

“Cambridge University Press has been at the forefront of digital publishing innovation since the birth of the Web. The launch of Cambridge eBook Collections marks a new milestone in fulfilling the Press’s promise to provide flexible, instant access to readers around the world. Our
authors can be confident that their works will reach the widest possible scholarly audience, and our institutional customers will have access to a
growing range of high value academic works,” Andrew Brown, Managing Director Academic & Professional Publishing, said.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 11:41 am

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Evo.com opens world’s largest green shopping destination

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evo.pngJust in time for the holiday shopping season, EVO announced that evo.com is open for business to provide shoppers with the widest selection of green gift items on the web. EVO has prescreened millions of products for their green attributes and only offers products for sale on evo.com that earn an EVO rating of one to five leaves. evo.com features more than 100,000 green products and services from 1,200 retailers in one location to make it easy for holiday shoppers to find great green gifts for everyone on their list, from babies to grandparents to business associates.

In addition to toys, evo.com features gift baskets, clothing, jewelry, bath and body products, food, home accessories, gadgets, and even eco-travel packages, cars and solar energy products. Retailers offering products and services on evo.com range from specialty brands to large retail giants and include American Apparel, Baby Center, Burt’s Bees, Comet Skateboards, Eileen Fisher, GE, Hanna Anderson, HP, Home Depot, Macy’s, Method, No Sweat Apparel, Nordstrom, Patagonia, REI, Target, Toys “R” Us, Toyota, Under The Canopy, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Viva Terra, and more than a thousand other sellers.

EVO has partnered with Trees for the Future to plant a tree in the name of everyone who joins the evo.com community, and has pledged to plant at least 100,000 trees this holiday season.

Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 9:00 am