Christie's said nearly a third of its bidders last year shopped by bidding online, a 2% rise from 2010.
Spokesmen for the construction industry say that their members were merely a bit dim and trying to be polite by bidding.
The markets react to this threat by bidding up the price of gold, and other commodities (like oil) that can serve as inflation hedges.
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In an apparent effort to protect its hefty share of the online search-advertising market, Google on Sunday accused Microsoft of trying to unfairly dominate the Internet by bidding for Yahoo!
Werner told FORBES he plans on increasing advertising revenue by bidding for major sporting events as they become available, as well as partnering with other regional cable networks.
Essentially, the accounting measures require banks to take charges when debt investors are bullish by bidding up the bank's debt and gains when they lose confidence and sell.
By bidding up the work of an artist at auction, for example, not only does an adviser stand to earn a higher commission, but the market often adjusts upward to reflect that publicly recorded price.
With new consoles and game titles rolling out over the next several months, investors have been eager to buy the retailers, and have applauded the deal by bidding up GameStop shares 42% since the deal was announced.
The Princie Diamond was purchased by an anonymous collector bidding by phone, Christie's in New York said.
It was purchased by an anonymous collector bidding by phone.
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The extra revenue colleges retain by limiting bidding for students doesn't all go to the needy.
Suitors could include the big international spirits companies, such as Diageo or Allied Domecq, which are presently preoccupied by the bidding to buy Seagram's liquor business.
That premium support payment is set by competitive bidding under rules ensuring it will be enough to pay for at least two of the competing plans providing at least the same benefits as Medicare.
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The days when corporations relied exclusively on the service of law firms are over, replaced by creative fee structures, heightened price bidding by those firms, and specialized LSO.
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And Hyundai has just got even bigger by winning the bidding for bankrupt Kia Motors, ahead of Ford.
Tudor Jones reportedly left a maximum with his secretary, who was bidding by phone, thinking the price would never get that high.
The new proposals include plans to rival the IPL by using a bidding process to attract the biggest starts of the international stage.
The state turned to managed care, competitive bidding by health care providers, and comprehensive case management by private insurers for those on Medicaid.
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Those customer requests, which are stripped of name, address and other identifying data, are then put up for bidding by some 200 registered lenders.
By dragging the bidding out, the board has, in essence, done little more than ensure a lower buyout offer and less value for shareholders.
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Then two collectors--Rajiv Chaudhri, a New York hedge fund manager bidding by phone, and an Indian collector who had flown to the U.S. for the auction--battled the price higher.
Now, naturally, it is a bit more: usually something like 50-100 dirhams, though aggressive bidding by groups of potential supporters on the day of the vote can push it up to 300 dirhams.
These days, I do my bidding by telephone.
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However, corporate strategic acquirers have also joined the fray as witnessed by the fierce bidding war between Dell ( DELL) and Hewlett Packard ( HPQ) for 3PAR, with HP the ultimate victor, paying a whopping 240 percent premium.
Mark Menendez, director of rentals at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said that even though the market was "pretty tight, " it was still a "value-based market, " in contrast to the frenzied bidding by renters in 2008 during the real-estate boom.
In contravention of a public, competitive auction, Crusader conspired to rig the tax lien bidding by allocating certain liens to members of the conspiracy, thus ensuring that the prevailing bidder took the lien with an artificially higher interest rate than would likely have been derived from open competitive bidding.
When they do that, others counteract by going in and bidding even higher prices.
That was a year after Nagano won the bidding war by four votes.
However, United gazumped the deal by entering negotiations and bidding three times what Arsenal offered for the recently-crowned 2008 Ballon d'Or winner.
Plans for a Wales-wide rail network have been unveiled by one of the companies bidding to run it.
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