Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Monday, December 11, 2006.

"Former Best Buy CMO Brings Retailer's Focus to Ebay: Michael Linton to Lead Auction Site's Marketplaces Unit," By Kate MacArthur, AdAge, 12/8/06
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=113677

"Postal Overhaul Bill May Delay Rate Hike," By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID (AP), Washington Post, 12/9/06
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900326.html

"Google Clicks to Call in India," posted by Om Malik on his GigaOM blog, 12/8/06
http://gigaom.com/2006/12/08/google-clicks-to-call-in-india

"Return Fraud Earns Retailers' Wrath," By Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 12/10/06 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900018.html

"African-American athletes well represented in NCAA’s Most Influential list," by Keith Jarrett, Citizen-Times, 12/10/06
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661209034
Why point to this article? It points to the NCAA Most Influential list, where you will find #92 - Meg Whitman, Princeton University, lacrosse, squash (Whitman is CEO of eBay).