Stories about: Sotheby's

The David that slew Microsoft - celebrated litigator David Boies - on Tuesday trained his legal slingshot on the presidential campaign of Republican George W. Bush.

Auction house Sotheby's Holdings Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday said they are shutting their 16-month-old co-branded site, Sothebys.Amazon.com, which sells art, collectibles and antiques.

Arthur Tisi lays big bear hugs on first-time visitors, disarming them to the point of laughter. Over the course of a normal 10-hour day, he slams back half a dozen bottles of neon-blue Powerade, eats three (sometimes four) containers of fruit salad and checks his e-mail at least 40 times. During meetings, he treats the conference table like a set of drums, thumping the floor with his feet while tapping the tabletop in syncopated rhythm. At lunch, he blows off steam with what he calls "retail therapy," impromptu jaunts to the designer stores that line Madison Avenue, in search of stuff he says every self-respecting man should buy--shirts, slacks, Mont Blanc pens and the occasional ring for the missus.

He began his 30-year career in law enforcement as a bobby on the beat in London and once helped track down an IRA bomber. But today, Peter J. Nevitt fights crime on a global scale as director of IS at Interpol.

EBay Inc. said today it had received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that it believes is related to the high-profile price-fixing probe of auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's.

Wall Street was abuzz last week with a startling rumour -- that America Online, perhaps the most dominant company in the Internet economy, was planning to buy CBS. Imagine - AOL, once the laughingstock of cyberspace, buying the Tiffany Network, the broadcasting pioneer that gave the world Edward Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Captain Kangaroo.