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Archive for January, 2006

EBay’s Supreme Court bid backed

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Research In Motion Ltd. and Yahoo! Inc. are supporting eBay Inc.’s U.S. Supreme Court bid to make it harder to force companies that infringe patents to change their products to avoid future violationsEBay, the world’s biggest Internet auction house, is appealing a lower court ruling that said trial judges, after finding a violation of patent […]

Wisconsin-Auctions.com launch date

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Press release
Wisconsin-Auctions.com has announced it’s official launch date - February 17th, 2006. The company is a Wisconsin-based online listing service which is free for the public to use. The site has a searchable database of all public auctions including: auto auctions, farm auctions, state auctions, government auctions, police auctions, motorcycle auctions, real estate auctions, land […]

Record Naples Wine Auction

Monday, January 30th, 2006

The auction brought in $12.2 million, a full million over last year’s total. 100 percent of the money raised will go go to help children.
Last year, 20 charities received $7.04 million of the $11.2 million raised. Tickets to the event cost $7,500 per couple.
Some of the highest bids included a 2006 silver-gray Continental Flying Spur […]

DiMaggio memorabilia for New York auction

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

More than 1,000 pieces of Joe DiMaggio memorabilia, including the New York Yankee baseball legend’s 1947 MVP Award and a set of World Series rings, will be auctioned off by his granddaughters this spring in New York, organizers said on Monday.
The Joe DiMaggio Collection, which also includes personal items from DiMaggio’s marriage to Hollywood film […]

Inland Real Estate Auctions to Open Offices in Florida, Michigan

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Press Release
Illinois-based Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today that it will continue its expansion as a national auction-industry leader by establishing permanent offices in Florida and Michigan. These offices represent the first two permanent presences for Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. outside of the company’s longtime home base in Oak Brook, Ill. as the […]

Cusseta-Chattahoochee County Surplus property brings in $1 million

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

In an auction that drew seven registered bidders, the county sold 332.436 acres of surplus land at U.S. 27 and Riverbend Road to Mark C. Woods Homes Inc., of Newnan. When Ben Hudson of Hudson & Marshall Auctioneers of Macon sounded the gavel, Woods had offered the high figure of $3,100 per acre for the […]

US Police investigate Neil Entwistle links to internet porn and eBay

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

American detectives hoping to question Neil Entwistle in person about the murder of his wife and daughter in Massachusetts have also begun inquiries into the Briton’s possible involvement in the murky world of internet pornography.
Officers have until now been only in telephone contact with Mr Entwistle, who has been staying with relatives in Nottinghamshire after […]