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HEARD ON THE BEAT / BUZZ FROM THE BUSINESS WORLD

By KAREN KAPLAN, technology reporter
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Staying Put: Barry Diller may by trying to reshape the online landscape with his deal to combine Ticketmaster, Home Shopping Network and Lycos into a $21.5-billion company called USA Lycos Interactive Networks. But Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, which will account for almost 20% of the combined company, will stay put in Pasadena.

“Same bat time, same bat channel,” said Charles Conn, chief executive of Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. “There’s no reason at all to move a company with several hundred people out there” to Waltham, Mass., where the Internet portal company Lycos is located.

Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster will stay put as well, Conn said.

No official word yet from Diller about where the new USA Lycos will be headquartered.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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