More than 50 posters from India’s vibrant Hindi cinema industry – widely known as Bollywood – will be sold at Bonhams Rock n Roll & Film Memorabilia sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 20 June 2007.
Bollywood allows a fascinating window into Indian life and culture. Presented in a mixture of Hindi and Urdu, [...]

A TAMESIDE auction house is auctioning off a classic car once used to chauffeur Princess Diana around.
The Jaguar Sovereign, a 1992 model in Westminster blue, is one of more than 30 vintage vehicles in the sale at Simon Charles Auctioneers in Ashton.
It is hoped its royal connections will raise up to £20,000.
The motor, described as [...]

eBay has bought social media service StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash. The deal gives eBay access to StumbleUpon’s 2.3 million users via the StumbleUpon toolbar, which allows users to “stumble” to new sites, videos, and other content within user-selected categories.
StumbleUpon’s founders and management will remain with the company, which will now be led by [...]

In Tennants Summer Stamp Sale on Wednesday, 13th June there will be a superb used specialized Great Britain Stamp Collection of Queen Victoria engraved issues covering 1840. To include 1d blacks, 2d blues and 1d reds, with all the plate numbers and a range of varieties and flaws. The collection comes from a [...]

Arthur Ransome’s children’s book Swallows and Amazons became an instant classic when it was first published more than 70 years ago and is still in print today.
And now a rare first edition has come on the open market – and is expected to sell for several thousand pounds.
The book will be sold at the summer [...]

Ebay has appointed Albion to handle its £10m advertising business after a final shootout against Mother. The account moves from Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, which did not repitch.
The online auction site called the review last month and originally shortlisted Albion, Mother, WCRS and Saatchi & Saatchi. However, WCRS and Saatchi & Saatchi were [...]

India’s political newspaper Tehelka will promote, preview and auction Indian art at a summit it will host in London next week to explain the growing economic and social importance of India.
An exhibition that begins at the Asia House in London Wednesday will showcase 85 canvases by renowned Indian artists and 50 paintings by their new [...]

Power generators will make tens of billions of euros in profit from the second phase of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme, according to predictions in an analysis of the market released on Friday.
The second phase of the scheme, which imposes a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from industry, will run from 2008 to 2012. [...]

Auction firm Warwick and Warwick is visiting the county next week to offer valuations of old postcards, stamps, coins, cigarette cards and medals.
Experts will also give advice to collectors on how to sell their treasures.
The company says many people do not realise that collections of old picture postcards, especially street scenes with trams, early [...]

A 63.6AC residential farm in Co Clare was sold for €4.05m at auction on Friday.
With a guide of €2.7m, auctioneer Cormac O’Sullivan from DNG O’Sullivan Hurley was pleasantly surprised at the huge turnout of more than 40 people, and even more pleased with the end result.
Opening strongly at €2m, the farm attracted three strong bidders [...]