For a long time, the only way for dealers to buy at wholesale used car auctions was to go in person. Now, many of those auctions take place online.

Farm auctions — a marketplace for knickknacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also social gathering spaces for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.

The last order of business for many bankrupt companies — restaurants in particular — is to put their assets under the gavel.