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Phillips de Pury & Co., a 216-year-old international art company with outposts in London and New York, is hosting an auction June 15 at its Park Avenue location. Focusing on 20th- and 21st-century decorative arts and design, the auction will feature more than 100 pieces ranging from light fixtures and ...

Founder Scott Finkelstein is expanding NextLot, this week's Inc. 5000 applicant of the week, for the next generation of Web users. As we process applications for the 2012 Inc

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. NYPD Clears OWS Camp In Zuccotti Park . New York police cleared the makeshift Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park last night displacing the assembled protestors at what was the heart of the global Occupy protests

Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Andrea Linett, eBay Fashion's creative director

Aiming to generate $5 billion worth of purchases via their mobile apps this year, eBay has designed "shoppable" windows to drive digital sales. Will their bricks translate to clicks? The goods artfully arranged in certain windows along Park Avenue advertise "The Inspiration Shop," but you won't find them in any actualy stores nearby.

Forty venerable watchmakers, including Harry Winston, Montblanc, Breguet, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chopard, and more, have each created a special timepiece for the fourth annual Only Watch charity auction at the Hotel Hermitage in Monaco on September 23. Prior to the auction, the Only Watch 2011 collection will be showcased ...

Over the past few weeks, Facebook users saw a spectacular deal advertised by gadget site Dealzon.com: an iPad 2, for only $11.37.

Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for more customers, and there are a lot of potential customers on the Internet, right? But what online strategy is going to help you to gain the customers you need in a cost-effective manner?

Some of the most desired California wines and more will be on the auction block on June 18 at Bonhams Wine Auction in San Francisco. Highlights include two bottles of 2005 Screaming Eagle presented in their original wooden cases (estimated from $3,000 to $4,000). Pioneering California winery Inglenook, which dates ...

Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zeroed in on how much he was paying his credit card processor

Whenever you surf the Web , websites use small bits of code called "cookies" to track your activity. The goal is to determine your interests and concerns and display ads calculated to appeal specifically to you. The downside is that advertisers know which sites you have visited; some even track your online purchases.

In a hip loft, in the hippest borough of the hippest city in America, a hundred or so energetic young people wearing vintage dresses, modded Nikes, and skinny jeans turn to face a makeshift stage. This is Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where a selection of creative types have congregated on a Friday night in January to enjoy free beer and celebrate the opening of the neighborhood's newest clothing store, Ruffeo Hearts Lil Snotty.

Some of SXSW's hottest startups say they're here to help small businesses compete, but eBay execs say those merchants want something else entirely. You'd think that wave-and-pay smartphone technology would be top priority for PayPal, one of the biggest competitors in the mobile payments space. But while big retailers love NFC for its hyper-targeted marketing potential , small businesses that run on payment services like PayPal may actually be interested in mobile payments for something far humbler: customer loyalty