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Overall a good varied sale starting each day at 1.00pm (British time) on-line in association with liveauctioneers.com and ebayliveauctions.com. (05/10/2008)

Bloomsbury Auctions will hold their inaugural Photographs Sale on 22nd May at 2pm at Bloomsbury House, 4 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PP. (05/10/2008)

Google have launched a collection of new iGoogle themes created by leading artists. igoogle is Google’s personalized homepage. iGoogle enables users to access and display the content they want on their homepage and personalize their overall web experience. (05/09/2008)

With confirmation that there will be no eBay Live in 2009 and this year's event in Chicago now being billed as a "turning point" in eBay's history, speculation will inevitably build about the plans John Donahoe has for the online auction giant. (05/06/2008)

With London counting down to the 2012 Olympics the Bonham's sporting memorabilia auction in Chester on 4th June will feature one of the Olympic Torches used in 1948 to carry the Olympic Flame on to British soil for the first time. (05/06/2008)

The Pheebay auction forum community have launched the fourth in a series of RSS newsfeed powered promotional sites. This latest site is for sellers on the rapidly growing Oztion site which now boasts more than 600,000 listings. (05/06/2008)

QXL, once the UK's leading online auction website, has given up the fight to compete with eBay in the British marketplace. Emails and notices on the website confirm the plug will be pulled at noon on 30th May. (05/06/2008)

A rare presentation copy of a first edition of "Emma" by Jane Austen will go under the hammer at Bonhams on 24 June at 101 New Bond Street, London. The pre-sale estimate is £50,000 (approx $100,000). (05/05/2008)

Selling online at venues like eBay, eBid, Tazbar and Oztion is becoming ever more competitive. While the number of people shopping online grows - the shopping options they have online are growing just as fast. But how can auction and hosted store sellers stay ahead of the game? (05/05/2008)