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...QVC Deal Sealed...
...board of cable network QVC this week officially accepted the sweetened $46-a-share buyout offer from Comcast and Liberty Media that sabotaged last month's heralded merger with...
...magnet, to say nothing of its own condom and kaleidoscope? Whose organizers . test-marketed the proposed lineup of bands to see which names would get maximum audience response? Which will be brought to you with the sponsorship of Pepsi, Haagen-Dazs and Apple computer, and sold to you via QVC's home- shopping channel...
Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m., having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments, including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time...
Just hours before the boards of CBS and QVC were to vote on a planned merger, Comcast Corp. -- the nation's third largest cable company and a minority shareholder in QVC -- launched a surprise bid for the QVC cable network it helped found. As CBS chairman Laurence Tisch quickly dropped the merger offer and announced a $1.1 billion stock buyback, analysts speculated that the network remains vulnerable to a takeover...