The auction was halted by eBay hours before it was to conclude after company executives met with Japanese American groups who called the sale “hurtful, and a degrading reminder of the mass ...

The jeans chess player Magnus Carlsen wore when the world No 1 withdrew from a tournament over its dress code have been sold in an eBay auction for $36,100 with proceeds going to charity.

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that buyers were discouraged by slow rejections of their offers in online auctions. As a result, buyers were ...