UK Auction Info
Private equity group Permira has acquired the former Unilever brands Birds Eye and Iglo, closing the auction with a £1bn bid.
Permira outbid CapVest, a rival private equity firm that owns FoodVest, the holding company behind Findus frozen foods in Norway, Sweden and France, as well as the UK’s Young’s Bluecrest Seafood.
Unilever took the [...]

UK Auction Info
Web search leader Google Inc. will supply online auctioneer eBay Inc. with Web search advertising outside the United States, and the two will join forces on “click-to-call” ads that link online shoppers to vendors, the companies said on Monday.
Paid search advertising lets marketers bid for ad space next to keyword search results.
EBay, whose [...]

Advised minimum values (AMVs), the new system for estimating the values of homes for sale, have failed to give buyers more accurate indications of how much properties will sell for at auction.
Advised minimum values (AMVs), the new system for estimating the values of homes for sale, have failed to give buyers more accurate indications of [...]

Waterford News & Star
A WATERFORD based startup is launching an innovative new mobile web service that will enable people to create websites for their mobile phones. Nubiq Ltd, which is a spinoff company of The Centre for Converged Communications Services (3CS) established by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), will introduce its first product ‘zinadoo’, at [...]

UK Auction Info
The final possessions of Syd Barrett are to be auctioned in Cambridge later this year, it has been announced.
Amongst the items set to go under the hammer are pieces of artwork from the Pink Floyd founder, some signed, which have never been seen before.
Also up for sale are his bikes, which were hand [...]