Britney Spears is giving fans a chance to own the gown she wore in the 2010 ads for her Radiance fragrance in an effort to raise funds for a friend’s sick son. The “Toxic” hitmaker is auctioning off the silver backless dress she donned for the perfume’s promotional posters in an eBay auction that will [...]
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Cricketers auction for IPL 4 begins in Bangalore
January 8th, 2011 |
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Seated eight to a table at the over 7,000 sq ft pillar-less Mysore Hall of ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel here, business leaders and film stars Saturday began picking up cricketers for the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) fourth season. The IPL-4 beginning April 8 will see 10 teams and 74 matches in the shortest version of [...]
IPL-4 auction: Gambhir, Pietersen among first lot sold
January 8th, 2011 |
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Following are the first nine players auctioned for the Indian Premier League (IPL) season four here Saturday. Gautam Gambhir (India): Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.4 million Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka): Royal Challengers Bangalore $6,50,000 Zaheer Khan (India): Royal Challenger Bangalore, $900,000 Ross Taylor (New Zealand): Rajasthan Royal, $1 million Yusuf Pathan (India): Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.1 [...]
IPL-4 players’ auction begins
January 8th, 2011 |
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction for the fourth edition began Saturday at the ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel here. “We have an interesting scheduled chalked out. It will be an exciting season. We promise to give you a fantastic game. I want to congratulate all owners franchisee for the auction,” IPL chairman Chirayu Amin [...]
Kumble hangs up his boots, withdraws from IPL auction
January 4th, 2011 |
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Legendary leg spinner and former India Test captain Anil Kumble has withdrawn from the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in Bangalore later this week, it announced here Tuesday. Kumble, who turned around the fortunes of IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), “cited business commitments, including his association with cricket and wildlife in various capacities, as [...]
Ashton Kutcher Mistress Sweater eBay Auction!
December 20th, 2010 |
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Would you pay $11,000 for a sweater that may or may not have been exchanged between actor Ashton Kutcher and his maybe mistress? Yeah, neither would we. But that’s the astronomical sum some Celeb Gawker is prepared to fork over for a little piece of tabloid history. Strapped for cash this holiday season, Ashton’s alleged [...]
O.A.R. Charity Auction
December 10th, 2010 |
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ONLINE AUCTION INCLUDES OPPORTUNITY FOR FANS TO PERFORM WITH O.A.R.
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O.A.R. fans won’t want to
miss an online auction that kicked off on auction site www.charityfolks.com. The band is offering up for the chance to perform
with them for 30-minutes during soundcheck in their hometown of Washington D.C., as well as a 1-Hour Guitar
Lesson with Lead Rhythm Guitarist, Richard On. Benj Gershman, Bass guitarist & photographer,
put one of his photos up, which was just showcased at an exhibition with Morrison Hotel Gallery. Also up for grabs
are front row concert tickets and a chance to meet the band.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit Heard the World
Fund, a charitable entity created by the band to support youth, education and sustainable programs both in the
U.S. and abroad. The band hopes to give a voice to those in need, through music and awareness, and to provide
resources for under-funded youth, education and sustainable programs. For more information about Heard the
World Fund, go to www.heardtheworld.org.
Bidding ends at www.charityfolks.com on December 23 at
12pm EST.
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Playboy nude artwork sells for $266K at NY auction
December 10th, 2010 |
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A Dali watercolour of a reclining nude that had been hanging in the bedroom of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has been sold for more than 266,000 dollars at an auction in New York. The work, which was expected to fetch not more than 150,000 dollars, was among the 125 artworks the magazine offered at Christie”s [...]
Kirsten Dunst donates designer purse to charity auction
December 3rd, 2010 |
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‘Spiderman’ star Kirsten Dunst’s purse is set to go under the hammer for charity. Dunst’s navy Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton handbag includes all her favorite things—a total worth 5,264 pounds. It is open to bidding at nypost.com/kirstenauction. The money collected will benefit Art of Elysium, which helps sick children at New York hospitals as [...]
James Bond gun fetches £277,250 at auction
November 26th, 2010 |
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A Walther air pistol, held by Sean Connery in a publicity shot for the James Bond classic ‘From Russia With Love’, has fetched more than 250,000 pounds at an auction. The gun sold for 277,250 pounds, more than 10 times its estimate of 15,000-20,000 pounds at Christie’s in London on Thursday, reports the BBC. Meanwhile, [...]
Apple-1 Computer Sells at Auction for $213,600
November 24th, 2010 |
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Apple-1, Apple’s first computer, sold for around $213,600 at a Christie’s auction Nov. 23. Someone really wanted a piece of tech history. – Back in 1976, the Apple-1 sold for $666.66. It featured 8k RAM and a cassette board connector, pitiful in comparison to the hardware and power of descendants like the iMac. But thanks to the Apple-1s place in Apple history, one of the machines sold for the equivalent of $213,600 at a Nov. 23 auction…
Dennis Hopperâ€s art fetches $10mn at auction
November 15th, 2010 |
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Late Dennis Hopper’s art collections have fetched more than 10 million dollars, almost double the minimum estimate, this week at a Christie”s contemporary-art auction. The “Easy Rider” star, who died in May, was an avid collector as well as a painter and photographer himself, reports the New York Post. Forty works he owned including pieces [...]
Apple-1 Computer Could Auction for Almost $250,000
November 14th, 2010 |
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Apple-1, Apple’s first computer, could auction for up to $242,000 at Christie’s later in November. Is that price-tag worth it for something designed by Wozniak? – Apples new MacBook Air starts at $999. Its 12-core Mac Pro will set you back $4,999. And the 64 GB iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity? A cool $829.99.
Dirt cheap, all of them. At least when compared to the Apple-1 PC due on Christies block later in November. The storied auction house estimates bid…
First edition of Jane Austenâ€s ‘Emma’ expected to fetch £100K at auction
October 30th, 2010 |
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The first edition of ‘Emma’, a classic novel by Jane Austen, is expected to fetch 100,000 pounds at an auction later this year. The writer sent the book, shortly after it was published in 1815, to fellow novelist Maria Edgeworth whose family have put it up for sale. The 16 December auction at Sotheby”s also [...]
Longoriaâ€s tweets at Twitter charity auction fetch $32K!
October 18th, 2010 |
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”Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria”s twitter message received the highest donations – a whopping 32,240 dollars on Twitter”s first ever celebrity charity auction ”Twitchange”. ”Twitchange”, which was a 10-day auction where anyone could bid on more than 100 famous actors, musicians and sports stars volunteering their tweets. Teen pop star Justin Bieber, reality TV”s Kim [...]
Clearwire Spectrum Auction Looks Like Act of Desperation
October 14th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: T-Mobile and Clearwire have already talked about an equity infusion that Clearwire badly needs, but Sprint isnt happy with that idea any more than it likes a spectrum auction. – Clearwire Corporations current attempt to auction off a portion of its massive spectrum holdings may be the companys desperate last effort to find a way to fend off an equity investment by T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom.
The evidence that all is not well at the wireless service provider starts …
Clearwire to Auction Spectrum to Raise $5 Billion for 4G Build-out
October 13th, 2010 |
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Deutsche-Telekom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and others are among the interested bidders in Clearwire’s massive wireless spectrum holdings. – Clearwire, operator of the WiMax 4G high-speed data
network used by Sprint Nextel, is selling a portion of its massive spectrum
holdings in an effort to raise money to continue the build-out of its 4G
network currently used by Sprint and others.
The Clearwire auction is attracting T-Mobile USA…
Hungerthon 2010 Auction
September 17th, 2010 |
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TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY WILL BE OPEN TO MORE PARTICIPANTS THAN EVER
BEFORE
Over the past 24 years, WhyHunger – the non-profit
organization founded by Harry Chapin and Bill Ayres – has made their annual November Hungerthon auction a premiere charitable
event and institution in NYC. To date, the auction has raised over $11M to put a stop to hunger and poverty
worldwide.
To celebrate Hungerthon’s 25th anniversary (Nov. 20 & Nov. 23), WhyHunger will go national opening the auction to
more participants than ever before. Past items included donations from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,
James Taylor, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Sting.
Stay tuned for announcements of celebrity-donated items and all other information related to the auction.