Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Wednesday, December 15, 2004.

Industry News & Trends

"Ebay's Management Merry-Go-Round: Meg Whitman shuffles executives at the Internet auction house—and the reason has everything to do with who succeeds her," By Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 12/27/04
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/careers/articles/0,15114,1006775,00.html

"eBay: Truly Asia, truly Malaysian ...," By Chan Lee Meng, The Star Online, 12/14/04
http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/12/14/technology/9635384&sec=technology

"Industrial auction: how to buy online," by Douglas G. Wene, P.E., Control Engineering, 12/1/04
http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA484738

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"Past Eminem studio to be sold on eBay: Bids on the Ferndale facility, where he recorded his first hit, will start at $215,000," By R.J. King, The Detroit News, 12/14/04
http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0412/14/B01-32532.htm

"Citroen WRC replica on eBay," Channel4.com, 12/13/04
http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=11513

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

"Lots of challenges await new FTC head," By Jayne O'Donnell, USA Today, 12/13/04
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-12-13-mejoras_x.htm

"Companies step up monitoring of internal networks," by Jon Swartz, USA Today, 12/14/04
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-12-13-security-usat_x.htm

"Just because it's the holidays, don't lower your guard online," by Sandra Block, USA Today, 12/14/04
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2004-12-13-ym_x.htm

"Bullet-press ban by eBay after PC murder," by Andrew Robinson Yorkshire Post Today, 12/14/04
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=904394

"Auburn Postal Employee Charged With Stealing Mail, Reports U.S. Attorney," (Press Release), Yahoo News, 12/13/04
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041213/nem025_1.html

Miscellaneous

"Going postal a bit easier this season," By Dana Bartholomew, LA Daily News, 12/13/04
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2595881,00.html

"Post Office cutting Sat. Hub pickups," By John Strahinich, Boston Herald, 12/14/04
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=58699

"Google to scan books from five major libraries," By Michael Liedtke (AP), USA Today, 12/14/04
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-12-14-googlebrary_x.htm