Press Release
LabX, the online mega-marketplace for scientific equipment, announced the registration of its 100,000th
member today, quadrupling its membership base since 2000. Established in
1995, LabX has proved it is a high-growth business, climbing to become the
leading online marketplace for the exchange of new and used scientific
products.
The President of LabX, Bob Kafato, was [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday said 15 brokerage firms had agreed to pay more than $13 million in combined penalties to settle charges of violations in the auction rate securities market for municipal and corporate bonds.
The SEC said it had censured and penalized the firms in varying amounts. It said its investigation [...]

Los Angeles County plans today to file suit in federal district court in an attempt to block the proposed June auction by the U.S. Army of a prime 10-acre parcel at Wilshire Boulevard and Federal Avenue that is now used as the West Los Angeles U.S. Army Reserve Center.
The complaint, a copy of which [...]

CASINO owner Steve Wynn shelled out HK$78.52 million (US$10.13 million) for a rare underglaze copper-red Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) vase in Hong Kong yesterday, setting a world record for any Ming porcelain.
“He’s bought the vase at the right price, making a world record,” said Edward Dolman, chief executive officer of Christie’s International.
The pear-shaped vase [...]

Press Release
On June 10, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is pleased to present an auction of property belonging to Erich “Mancow” Muller. This 360 lot sale will offer items collected by “Mancow,” featuring everything from an actual size replica Batmobile to the boots worn by Charlton Heston in the “Planet of the Apes,” and many more collectible [...]

Manheim’s Dallas-Fort Worth Auto Auction, located
in Fort Worth, Texas, recently hosted the 18th annual World Automobile
Auctioneer Championship on May 5 and 6, attracting a record participant
attendance.
Scott Goodhue, of Calhaw, Colo., took first place in the auctioneer
category, receiving the grand prize of $15,000 and a trophy. With a
score of 98.13 out of 100 possible points, [...]

The Auction It Today Inc. chain of eBay consignment stores has debuted in Colorado with locations in Evergreen and Idaho Springs.
More stores and drop-off kiosks for goods to be auctioned on eBay are planned for Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock, Centennial, Parker, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs.
Auction It Today is one of several so-called eBay drop-off [...]

A watershed Lawren Harris work that was long believed to have been destroyed sold for nearly $1.1 million at auction Monday.
Well-known Canadian art agent David Loch purchased Figure with Rays of Light (Arctic Forms III) in Toronto for an undisclosed Canadian collector.
Sotheby’s Canada, which held the Monday auction in conjunction with Ritchies Auctioneers, had [...]

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For several weeks Microsoft has been in discussions about a possible acquisition of online auctioneer eBay, The Post has learned.
According to multiple sources close to the matter, Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging it with its MSN portal – a deal that would give MSN and eBay considerable clout to take on Google.

Auction Blogs
Car auctions are a good place to get good a bargain on cars. But buying cars from auctions can be very complicated. This is particularly true for the uninitiated. Of course the cars in auctions are generally cheaper. But they are cheap because they lack the guarantees that come with cars bought from [...]

A major sale of a snowy mountain canvas by Lawren Harris launches Canada’s spring auction season, with works by Harris, other Group of Seven members and David Milne on the block in Toronto next week.
Vancouver-based Heffel’s Fine Art Auction House scored a strong opening volley to the season with its sale Thursday evening of Harris’s [...]

An auction of nationwide airwaves that could lead to cheaper in-flight broadband and telephone calls was winding down Thursday, with a small Colorado-based company as the apparent winner for the largest swath of radio spectrum.
The auction conducted by the Federal Communications Commission will resume Friday, but AC BidCo is the only remaining contender for the [...]

Internet powerhouses Yahoo Inc and eBay Inc are joining forces in an alliance that further defines the battle lines in an online showdown with rivals Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL.
Under the multiyear partnership announced, Yahoo and eBay will draw upon each other’s strengths in online advertising, payments and communications so they can [...]

Auctioneers decided to keep the bidding open on a high-profile parcel of central Arlington real estate after a brief round of bidding on Friday morning failed to produce an acceptable offer.
The contiguous properties at 100 S. Cooper, 704 W. Main and 706 W. Main streets belong to a nonprofit agency. The agency had planned to [...]

Four bronze plates from the lifeboats that carried Titanic survivors are expected to command some of the highest auction prices ever associated with the 1912 maritime disaster, Christie’s said on Friday.
Two lots — one a plate reading “S.S. Titanic” and a White Star lines house flag rendered in bronze and the other a plate also [...]