--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - November 09, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY -- Liberty Media said it is focusing on the future of its interactive business by creating a tracking stock for the home shopping network - QVC - encompassing as much as 85 percent of Liberty's equity assets. Liberty also said it swung to a third-quarter loss due to higher expenses and hired former Oracle finance chief Gregory B. Maffei to head the company.
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