Online auction house QXL Ricardo today revealed booming sales and profits, a lower burn rate and a strategic deal with Microsoft. Its agency auction value increased 42 per cent to £29.7m for the fourth quarter.
Resuming after a timeout called by Spain's Telefonica last week, the auction of UK's third-generation (3G) mobile phone licences reached new heights on Monday, with total bids topping £16bn. One2One, Orange and WorldCom remain the other bidders in...
Triptych Systems is holding an online auction to raise cash for the Jubilee Tall Ships charity. Will Horbury, Triptych managing director, explained that the idea behind the scheme is to show that "users can build a trading site selling anything...
ISP Terra Lycos is to shelve its own auction site and join forces with eBay. The two companies have signed a five-year deal to co-market and manage the co-branded portal. Former Lycos partner Freemarket has been ousted as the ISP closes its old site.
Industry insiders do not expect the sale to hit the £22.5bn total seen with the auction of spectrum for 3G services in 2000. The spectrum set for sale is likely to be used for a range of advanced wireless and mobile broadband services such as WiMax...
Thousands of items are already for sale on the Auction for America section of the site. All proceeds from the auction will go to charities related to the terrorist attacks in the US last week. Online auctioneer eBay is aiming to raise $100m in just...