While clearing out a house in Berlin that had been struck by lightning, an administrative receiver found several drawings by Heinrich Zille. Now they are to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst Modern Art & Post War auctions to be held in Hamburg on 4 and 5 April 2008. At stake are over [...]

Telecom Italia SpA has won three licenses for WiMax, a broadband wireless access technology which can handle video conferencing, television viewing and high-speed data transmission.
Telecom Italia won the frequencies in three “macro areas” – including the main regions in central and southern Italy and Sardinia.
Italy’s former monopoly has beaten its main competitors in the final [...]

Press Release
British American Tobacco Friday confirmed it has won the auction for the cigarette business assets of Tekel, the Turkish state-owned tobacco company, with a bid of $1.72B.
The transaction is subject to approval by Turkey’s Competition Board and ratification by the Turkish Privatisation High Council. Signing and completion are expected later this year.
On completion, the [...]

The estate of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, the German soprano who died in 2006, will go under the hammer in Austria next month, with the proceeds to go to charity, the Vienna-based auction house Dorotheum said Thursday.
Schwarzkopf, who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1992, was one of the most distinguished and influential singers [...]

Four groups submitted bids for Tekel Sigara. Those are British American Tobacco (BAT) Turkish Limak Insaat with PI Turkey; a consortium of Dogan Holding-Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) and Turkish cigarette wholesaler TUTSAB; and Strand Investment, a consortium made of private equity firm Cinven and a group of Turkish businessmen.
Earlier attempts to sell Tekel failed [...]

Odalys auction house will open, from Tuesday, February 12 through 17, in a new space for the exhibition of Latin American art, in response to the recent international demands that have begun research on the new views of the discursive places of the history of visual arts in our continent. The auction is N° 156, [...]

The sale on April 16 includes the skeleton of a Triceratops,a 25-feet dinosaur.
There are 193 lots, one of the most impressive is the skull of a saber-toothed tiger, probably from China (45,000 euros), and a skull of a Russian bear (4,000 euros). Both are from the Pleistocene Period, the Great Ice Age. There are also [...]

In order to assist the Black Dragons in its quest to continue to offer professional ice hockey in Thüringen (Germany), Patrick Grueschow asked the club to relay his invitation to all its sponsors and affiliates.
On his last trip to the US, Mr. Grueschow was able to get a Black Dragons jersey signed by the [...]

Celebrating Carl Spitzweg’s 200th birthday. Special auction at Ketterer Kunst
Ketterer Kunst presents a choice selection of the artist’s works at a special auction Hamburg, 13 February 2008
Pres-sale viewings of selected works are scheduled for the following dates, times and venues:
18-22 March, 11 am-7 pm, Ketterer Kunst, Fasanenstrasse 70, Berlin
25-27 March, 11 am-4 pm, Ketterer Kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse [...]

A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court case to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who’s the father.
Six different men won Internet auctions to have sex with the woman in April and [...]