A new American company called Liberty Venture Group will take over the e-commerce operations of Liberty Interactive Corporation, including Backcountry.com and Bodybuilding.com, through an exchange of shares. It will be worth about $1.5 billion and will have more than $2.7 billion in cash to invest. Liberty Interactive will rename itself QVC Group and will focus on its growing QVC TV shopping activities.
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