Ms. Ingle learned that InterActiveCorp (IAC) was to purchase Trip Advisor.

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In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.

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Even likelier bidders are two internet firms, Yahoo and InterActiveCorp, whose respective bosses, Terry Semel and Barry Diller, hail fom the entertainment world.

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Diller's InterActiveCorp owns Ticketmaster, Home Shopping Network, Match.com and others.

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That's potentially bad news for InterActiveCorp's TicketMaster, which has agreements with many pro teams and concert venues as a primary ticket distributor but isn't set up to broker deals between customers.

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In April BlueTie signed a deal with Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) to host 2 million e-mail accounts for its Excite portal and other brands.

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That's potentially bad news for InterActiveCorp's (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) TicketMaster, which has agreements with many pro teams and concert venues as a primary ticket distributor but isn't set up to broker deals between customers.

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