'E.T.' Cereal Grain Gets $804 on Auction
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SYDNEY, Australia - First it was a purported likeness of the Virgin Mary in a cheese sandwich. Now, a single grain of breakfast cereal with an uncanny resemblance to cuddly movie alien E.T. has reportedly fetched $804 in an Internet auction.
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It looks like SUPERVALU's a super value. This grocer is ripe for a review.
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THE baseball that Barry Bonds hit for his 700th career home run brought a top bid of $US804,129 ($1.08 million) today after a 10-day online auction.
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Natural and organic food retailer Whole Foods Market Inc.  on Friday extended its tender offer for Wild Oats Markets Inc.  for a fourth time as it waits for a hearing that will decide if it can go ahead with the deal.
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'Lucy' goes for the soft sell NSFW Thanks very much to reader Nick L for alerting us to a rather strange eBayer who has decided to deploy her not inconsiderable assets as a sort of mammary display stand. Try this "auction" for a Panasonic CD player front panel:â¦
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Baseball slugger Barry Bonds&#39;s 700th career home run ball drew a winning bid of $804,129 in an online auction that closed on Wednesday.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - A teenager auctioning himself as a prom date has been booted off eBay - but he's still selling the shirt off his back.  Nathan Carlson offered himself for auction last Friday after a conversation with some friends at Ridgewater College. The bidding started at $30.
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(InfoWorld) - A $1.3 billion reserve price for a piece of wireless spectrum to be auctioned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in January is too high, according to one company interested in the spectrum. The FCC has proposed the reserve, or minimum price, of about $1.3 billion for a 10MHz portion of spectrum to be paired with 12MHz set aside for emergency response communications. With that 22MHz of spectrum, the winning bidder will be required to build a wireless network to be used by public safety provider and for commercial wireless communications. But Frontline Wireless,Â the startup that pushed the public safety plan, said Tuesday the FCC's reserve price for the so-called D Block of spectrum is "unprecedentedly and irrationally high." The winning bidder will be required to build out a national network costing billions of dollars, Frontline argued in a brief it filed Friday. Many bidders "will hold back bids in the initial action to prevent the reserve from being met," Frontline said. "They will withhold higher bids until the re-auction when there will be weaker service rules ... and fewer competing bidders." Frontline was one of 13 groups that filed comments by Friday's deadline on theÂ FCC's auction plan, released earlier in August. The FCC is schedule to auction 62MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz band beginning Jan. 16. The FCC set a reserve price of $10 billion for the entire 62MHz, but many observers believe the auctions will raise much more than that. The spectrum is currently controlled by U.S. television stations using channels 52 to 69. The U.S. Congress in late 2005 passed legislation that requires the stations to move to digital broadcasts and abandon spectrum in the 700MHz band by February 2009. Among other comments filed were ones from the Coalition for 4G in America, whose members including Google and Intel. The coalition called on the FCC to create definitive rules for extending an auction that would allow high bidders to meet the reserve price set for the auction. In a section of spectrum called the C Block, the FCC has set rules that would require that the winner of the 22MHz of spectrum allow any wireless devices to connect to the network, meaning wireless telephone customers could bring their handset devices from other carriers. The FCC, in so-called open-access rules, also prohibited the winning bidder on the 22MHz block of spectrum from blocking or slowing wireless and Web content from competitors. But if the reserve price isn't met, the FCC would re-auction the spectrum, presumably with the open-access rules removed. "If the 700MHz auction were cancelled for failing to reach the reserve price, it would not result in a re-auction, but effectively in a different auction altogether," the coalition said. Frontline, in its Friday brief, also called on the FCC to limit the amount of commercial mobile spectrum in each market to 70MHz. If the winning bidder has more than 70MHz, it should be disqualified from bidding on more spectrum, Frontline said. "Significant additional accumulation of spectrum by the largest wireless carriers in this auction, coupled with current market concentration, could cripple the ability of competitors to develop new services and cause serious competitive harm in the wireless market," Frontline said. Representatives of Verizon Wireless and AT&T didn't immediately respond to a request for comments on Frontline's filing.
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Baseball slugger Barry Bonds's  700th career home run ball drew a winning bid of $804,129 in an  online auction that closed Wednesday.
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01/10/2004 The Big G cereal division of General Mills, known for Cheerios, Wheaties and Trix cereals, is announcing it will become the first leading food company to make all of its breakfast cereals with whole grain, providing Americans with more than 1.5
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A bid from GoldenPalace.com was the winning bid for a eBay auction selling a decade-old cheese sandwich, sn reported. It is claimed that the sandwich has a likeness of the Virgin Mary on it.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - Whole Foods Market Inc.  said on Wednesday it will buy smaller rival Wild Oats Markets Inc.  for about $565 million to compete better with larger traditional grocers, which are increasingly encroaching into its organic and prepared foods niches.
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Wild Oats Markets Inc. (NasdaqNM: OATS), a Boulder-based chain of health food grocery stores, announced Oct. 25 that it expects a net loss of 20 cents to 22 cents for its third quarter ended Sept.
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The winning bid to break bread with billionaire Warren Buffett came in at $650,100, which is $30,000 more than the top bid at last year's charity auction.
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NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA  - At least two bidding groups plan to submit offers on Friday to acquire Cadbury Schweppes Plc's  U.S. beverage unit for as much as $15.8 billion (8 billion pounds), sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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General Mills Inc.  on Monday said it will sell an &#36;835 million stake in its cereal business to an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc.  and use the money to buy back 16.5 million of its common shares from Diageo Plc .
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MINNEAPOLIS - The Trix Rabbit and that Lucky Charms leprechaun are going on a whole-grain diet. General Mills announced Thursday that it will convert all of its breakfast cereals to whole grain...