The defending IPL champions are believed to be targeting the three internationals at Sunday's auction in Chennai. ...
10:19 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Often in a market, buyers don't know the true value of a product, and sellers may not know how much a customer can really pay. So how does one trade in such a scenario? Dr Arunava Sen, economist and winner of the Infosys Prize, may have some answers. He has spent years analysing how buyers and sellers behave in auctions and other businesses where key information is often kept hidden....
10:19 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Text of commentary from the auction hall as the hammer came down at the Hockey India League players' auction on Sunday. ...
08:53 AM, Dec 16, 2012
The participation of Pakistani players in the auction will be decided by the governing council at its next meeting. ...
06:50 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New York: A rare, still-working Apple I Computer from 1976 sold at Sotheby's auction house on Friday for $374,500, or more than 500 times its original retail price. The computer, one of only a handful in full working condition, had been estimated to sell for about $150,000 at the auctioneer's sale of books and manuscripts. The Apple computer, built by the company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, included the...
12:16 PM, Jun 16, 2012
London: Apple 1, the first ready-made personal computer, is expected to sell for up to $180,000 in an auction at Sotheby's, The Telegraph reported. The computer, consisting only of a bare motherboard, with microchips and circuitry exposed, is thought to be one of only around half a dozen working examples of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's first hardware. Some 200 Apple 1s were built in 1976 and sold at retail...
10:29 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
Miami: NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than USD 388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the...
08:51 AM, Jan 07, 2012
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million, 10 times its estimated price, two months after the death of high-profile co-founder Steve Jobs. The contract, sold with another document that removed one of the company's initial three partners after just 11 days, was the subject of fierce bidding by six people taking part in the auction over...
10:14 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New York: The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 and another document, signed 11 days later, that removed one of the partners are expected to fetch up to $150,000 when they are auctioned next week by Sotheby's. The December 13 auction of books and manuscripts will also include a letter from Franz Kafka complaining of writer's block, a set of cartoons from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner...
10:53 AM, Dec 10, 2011
New York: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun an auction on eBay to raise money, selling memorabilia tied to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, the New York Times reported Saturday. WikiLeaks group auctioned 10 pieces of memorabilia and services, including a portrait of Assange set at more than $900, a package of coffee from Assange's time spent in a London jail, and a computer on which the WikiLeaks team prepared publication of...
10:34 AM, Sep 18, 2011
Denver: One of the most iconic photographs taken of a 19th-century Wild West outlaw, that of legendary gunslinger Billy the Kid, is up for auction on Saturday, when it is expected to sell for at least $ 300,000. The credit card-sized tintype, or ferrotype, of an armed Billy the Kid wearing a tall black hat cocked on his head, is the only authenticated photo of the infamous gunman, according to...
11:52 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Sydney: A prominent brain surgeon in Australia has startled the medical fraternity by auctioning tickets to let people watch him perform surgeries in the operation theatre. Apalled by such an action, the medical authorities here have launched a probe against Charlie Teo, a Sydney brain surgeon. Teo, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia this week, sold off the tickets at a charity auction in October, abc.net.au...
03:50 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Judge rules IPL decision taken by private franchises. ...
05:40 PM, Mar 02, 2010
I am speaking as a cricket lover, says Home Minister. ...
04:46 PM, Jan 28, 2010
'The media is biased at times,' says league commissioner. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 22, 2010
IPL auctions not a govt matter; Pak must draw the line: SM Krishna. ...
11:42 AM, Jan 21, 2010
Estimated value of the glove stands conservatively at $40,000-$60,000. ...
02:29 AM, Nov 19, 2009
German auctioneer sells three paintings of the dictator for $60,000. ...
12:33 AM, Sep 06, 2009
The auction also featured Elvis Persely and Michael Jackson's belongings. ...
12:49 PM, Jul 01, 2009
