"A preliminary injunction against the auction would be wrong," said Howard R. Hawkins Jr., who is representing Merrill Lynch.
I.B.M., which has a preliminary version of its auction software on the market, is using work that the company had done on human gene analysis to develop software that will, eventually, search the Web for products with detailed specifications.
G.M. began conducting a due diligence examination of Daewoo last September after Ford Motor decided to abandon the sole right to negotiate a purchase, which Ford had won at auction with a preliminary bid of about $6 billion.
Nick Spiro of Spiro Sovereign Strategy Sentiment-wise, this was not so much a Spanish debt auction as a preliminary verdict on the ECB's soon-to-be-unveiled bond-buying plan.
The New Jersey firm, which has long tracked advertising spending for what's known in the TV industry as the upfront market, said its preliminary estimate for this year's auction is up $800 million compared with last year, a gain of 4.5%.
A year ago the auction pool in the preliminary Teams totaled $312,000, and the Pairs totaled $1,140,000.
The injunction prevented the trust from entering into a binding arrangement but did not prevent the company from continuing the auction and making a preliminary deal.
In one of the more interesting cases, attorneys for Ebay just won a preliminary injunction against Bidder's Edge, an auction aggregator.
The field experiment provides some preliminary evidence that hypothetical random nth price auctions can, in certain situations, reveal demand truthfully.
In this paper we present preliminary results about the revenue properties of dynamic auctions for IDV bidders.
Spectrum auctions would provide about $15 billion, according to preliminary estimates.
