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RSS auctionWorld's Biggest Auto Auction Links Customer Information to Grow Online Business
White Paper Manheim is the world's leading provider of used vehicle auctions and related services. Operating in 140 locations in 19 countries, the company and its subsidiaries processed sales of 10 million vehicles in 2008. [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo Read on to see if any other items in the auction take your fancy. It was sold by the exclusive designer shop Zarach in London's Sloane Square and is expected to sell for at least £1,500 in the auction. [29 Sep 2009]
Former eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Whitman stepped down as CEO of eBay in March 2008, a decade after she transformed the company from a tiny auction site to an internet icon. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to officially declare her candidacy for... [22 Sep 2009]
US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News to put Yahoo's search technology assets up for auction to let the deal go through. The long road toward Microsoft and Yahoo! s search deal could be set to get a little longer. Both companies have long expected the US... [14 Sep 2009]
World's Largest Auctioneer Sees Nearly 40 Percent Savings With HP BladeSystem
White Paper Over fifty years ago the firm started in British Columbia, Canada, when three brothers held an auction to sell surplus inventory from their furniture store. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is one company that understands this... [02 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News Ecommerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it's selling its Skype unit to an investor group that includes entrepreneur Marc Andreessen's new venture. Under the deal, eBay will receive approximately $1.9bn in cash and a note from the... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The online auction giant eBay acquired Skype for $2.6bn in 2005 with the plans to offer customers the ability to discuss their transactions in real-time. When the company announced that John Donahoe as its new CEO in... [01 Sep 2009]
PayPal suffers global outage and performance woes
News As a key driver of growth for eBay, PayPal is becoming more important at the online commerce and auction site. PayPal suffered a global outage and slow performance on Monday but eBay says its online payment system is... [04 Aug 2009]
Imperial College Streamlines Purchasing and Improves Efficiency With e-Auction-Based Sourcing
White Paper Imperial College used Oracle Sourcing to source 5% to 6% of a US$365 million purchasing budget and have plans to increase that percentage over time and sourced key commodities, such as utilities, office supplies, laboratory supplies,... [30 Jul 2009]
Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution
White Paper Allegro Group selected HP Oracle Database Machine for its performance capabilities and scalability, which provided Allegro Group's online auction business with the ability to offload query processing to intelligent HP... [30 Jul 2009]
Ericsson snaps up Nortel's wireless tech for $1.13bn
News Ericsson cast the $1.13bn winning bid in an auction for the wireless assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks, the companies said on Saturday. Ericsson was one of three bidders in Friday's auction. That offer... [27 Jul 2009]
PayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive
News It will eclipse the company's auction and commerce operations, the company says. PayPal, eBay's well established but aging mechanism for online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation of online... [24 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet It's also working on protecting the London 2012 Olympic Games from online threats and collating fraud reports from online auction site eBay. So, PCeU. Bless you, that's not swine flu is it? Not a sniff of it - PCeU... [20 Jul 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News To enable the UK's mobile networks to play a bigger part in building universal broadband, Carter flagged up the report's plans for "a programme of spectrum liberalisation, auction packaging, auction... [16 Jun 2009]
Intel spends $43m on WiMax push
News When it goes to auction, the bulk of this spectrum - in the so-called '3G expansion band' around 2.6GHz - is expected to go to providers of rival technology LTE but it's possible that some will be bought by a provider of... [08 Jun 2009]
