Online auction site eBay Inc. had double the traffic of Amazon.com Inc., its closest competitor among U.S. Web retail sites, at the start of the holiday online shopping season, according to data released on Tuesday.
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Google Base now allows users to post any kind of information they want for free and to provide labels to describe it so others can easily find it.
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London-based auction house Bonhams announced Monday that it would hold its first-ever sale entirely devoted to Russian art.
This sale begins a new Russian season on Britain’s auctioneering scene, with Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bloomsberry’s following suit later this month and in early December.
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The BBC and the estate of Dalek creator Terry Nation have moved swiftly to pull the plug on the the trundling salt-cellars’ intergalactic rumpy-pumpy.
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Rare coins are expected to fetch about $3 million - when they go under the hammer in Melbourne.The auction by Downies - of 5,850 gold coins plus 800 Australian copper and silver coins from the Reserve Bank of Australia - includes an 1852 Adelaide pound worth an estimated $55,000.Downies director Ken Downie said the auction, […]