Word: qvc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia created E to evoke the perfume of her grandmother Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. This "scent once known only to nobility" is now available to commoners--on the QVC home-shopping network...
...reality, there's not much left of the Comcast ranch to bet. Roberts and his father Ralph, 77, who own 7% of Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
Barry Diller sure thinks so. Two long years after the architect of the Fox Network departed his perch at QVC for exile in the Media Mogul Wilderness, the poker-faced, once-and-future content king is ready to reveal his latest card. It is Consumer's Edge, a software developer based in La Jolla, California, that hopes to earn a slice of the online commerce pie by offering what CEO Steve Tomlin calls "deep interviews"--extensive Q&As that match consumers with pretty much any product known to the free market...
...company's potential to match buyers and sellers is what caught Diller's eye. Diller and Tomlin first worked together at QVC; Diller was the chairman, Tomlin a high-tech executive who had phoned looking for a job after reading how much Diller loved his Powerbook. Both left QVC in the fall of 1994; a few months later, Diller recalls, Tomlin called him again: "'I've found these two guys in a garage...
...which leads to what may be the most intriguing question of all: How does Consumer's Edge fit into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network...