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Online purchasing of art and antiques on the rise
The live online bidding site The-saleroom.com has recorded a 120 per cent year-on-year increase in bidder numbers in 2009, revealing growing buyer confidence in purchasing art and antiques online. In a year when recession and credit issues dominated the headlines, the-saleroom.com bucked the trend with revenues generated by the site increasing by 55 per cent year-on-year. The value of lots sold on the site has also grown by 87 per cent with t... [more]
Arts and antiques have remained pretty resilient throughout the recession
According to the latest survey from RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), prices in the arts and antiques market continue to rise with silver and jewellery leading the way, whilst contemporary art came back into favour following a year of price falls. The all lot price balance continued to edge up in the final quarter of 2009, with 17 percent more surveyors reporting rising rather than falling prices, up from 14 percent in the previ... [more]
Insider guide to the antiques trade
How To Deal in Antiques, by TV and radio antiques expert Fiona Shoop, is now in its fourth edition. In this simple, step-by-step guide, Fiona explains how to save money when buying antiques and how to make a profit when you sell. She introduces different types of dealing, from fairs to the Internet. If you love antiques and enjoy buying and selling them as a profitable career or hobby, you’ll need to know exactly what you’re doing to maximise ... [more]
Invest in India, former Vodaphone CEO to students (rediff.com)
Arun Sarin, the newly minted honorary knight of the British Empire who delivered the ending keynote, urged the Berkeley students to invest in Asia and work there to learn valuable entrepreneurial lessons.
Calendar (Baltimore Messenger)
Submit notices via e-mail: messenger@patuxent.com; fax: 410-997-4564 or mail: Baltimore Messenger, 10750 Little Patuxent Pkwy.,Columbia, MD 21044. Include sponsor or host, date, time, address of event, contact name and phone number. Deadline is noon the Thursday before publication. Art and exhibits The Homewood Museum -- at Johns Hopkins University, 3400...
Fashion Forward: The Oscar edition, with Bullock, Lopez (USA Today)
This week: And the best-hair award goes to ...
Ball touts inns as base for Ewing growth (The Times of Trenton)
EWING -- Republican Mayor Jack Ball could have been playing Monopoly the way he touted hotel properties during his state of the township address yesterday.
Leibovitz gets new creditor to manage debts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Financially troubled photography icon Annie Leibovitz has turned to a US private equity firm to help deal with debts which had threatened to strip her of her archive of famous pictures.
Things I wish farm families understood (Iowa Farmer)
It is important to share the emotions, struggles and triumphs of daily life with each other. Too many farmers and their wives grow apart by not talking enough.
It's spring: Pay attention to the market setup (The Christian Science Monitor)
On Wall Street, the setup is a technical formation, usually the harbinger of a profitable trade.
TRMC data center to be built (Tifton Gazette)
TIFTON — Tift Regional Medical Center announced Tuesday that the construction of a $9.3 million data center will begin this spring, and when completed will add another 10 jobs to the 19 staff members currently devoted to the hospital’s information technology support.
Cinematheque: It's More Than a Game - but is it more than a crowdpleaser? (Shanghaiist)
Follow the basketball wonder LeBron James and the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School basketball team as they rise to (the) stars in More Than a Game , the documentary that has now reached Shanghai movie theaters. It's a classic success story with a "larger-than-life" theme and a soundtrack fueled with megastar hip hop and RnB. With such a recipe, could anything possibly go wrong? The maker of the ...
This column will change your life: With friends like these… | Oliver Burkeman (Guardian Unlimited)
Are our friends really little more than marketing tools with which we should improve our own lives? "Real power comes from being indispensable," declares Keith Ferrazzi , who has carved out a high-profile niche for himself as the maestro of networking – the art of coming to see your social circle not just as people you drink with, or play Scrabble with, or have ill-informed arguments about Iraq ...
