Christie’s auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai realised $6,736,475 / AED 24,722,863 / €4,526,911, and was 72% sold by lot and 74% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was “Remembrance and Gratitude”, a large and spectacular diptych by Ahmed Moustafa (b.1943), which sold for $662,500 / AED 2,431,375 [...]

Spectrum Wine Auctions, the world’s newest live and online auction house of fine collectible wine, announced today that it will simulcast its premiere live auction LIVE via satellite at Crown Wine Cellars in Hong Kong at 9:00AM local Hong Kong time on 22 November, 2009. Crown Wine Cellars is located at 18 Deep Water Bay [...]

phpAuction and ABT team up for this new application. phpAuction, with more than10 years of experience in the auction market provides the stable, expandable and robust online enuuk Auction platform. ABT is a mobile wireless e-retailing software firm, experts in the use of mobile auction and e-commerce web applications.
Each device has its own particular human [...]

Networks Corporation (OTCBB: NRTLQ) announced today that in light of the current status of the Company’s various divestiture activities and asset sales, it has determined, after discussions with interested parties, that it is preferable to schedule the auction in relation to the sale of its GSM/GSM-R business at a later date than initially planned. The [...]

UpperBid.com Online Auctions, the top ranking USA Sellers only online auction, announced today that they are eliminating dutch auctions from their selling options. Though they are still allowing the sales of multiple item auctions in the fixed price format, they have made the decision to stop offering the dutch style bidding for multiple items.
“Dutch auctions [...]

On Tuesday, October 27, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper spanning nearly one hundred years of Israeli and Jewish art will be sold at auction by Montefiore Auction House in Tel Aviv, Israel. The auction will also be showcased live via iCollector.com, enabling visitors from around the world to participate in real time and [...]

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced plans to auction 3G licences in January 2010, confirming earlier speculation that the government is unlikely to meet its 7 December deadline.
The new schedule published on Saturday as part of a revised Information Memorandum revealed that the auction is due to open on 14 January, while bidding for frequencies [...]

Collectors from around the world will have the rare chance to acquire exceptional works from the biggest names in Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art in this season’s Asian Contemporary & Chinese 20th-Century Art Evening Sale held on November 29 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Valued at over HK$125 million (US$16 million), [...]

A very original 1960 model Porsche 356B Super 90 coupe requiring some refurbishment was the top priced vehicle at Shannons Spring Classic Auction in Sydney on 12th October, selling for $67,000 – well above its pre-auction high estimate of $48,000.
The unmolested Porsche, which had been in the hands of the same owner since 1964, was [...]

More than two dozen terrific items are available for auction with the proceeds benefiting people with the greatest needs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pan American Development Foundation announced today.
For the next two weeks, items ranging from travel and entertainment to jewelry and original artwork will be auctioned to the public at Charity [...]