How LinkedIn Chooses What News Stories You See

LinkedIn Today is a social business news product that appears on the very top of your LinkedIn page. 

This news aggregator brings top business headlines to LinkedIn's 175 million-plus members across 40 different industries, and it has become a powerful driver of traffic for media sites, including this one.

LinkedIn's executive editor Dan Roth spoke at our Social Media ROI conference this fall to talk about how his team chooses what stories get featured on your customized LinkedIn Today page and on the pages of various professional groups, which carry on discussions about a particular industry.

Watch below Roth explain what the news selection process is like, and why the most shared stories are not necessarily the ones to be featured on the news feed.

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Move Over Santa: Consumer Reports Issues List Of Naughty & Nice Companies

They’re making a list and checking it twice, and you’re about to find out who’s naughty and nice. Get it? Because Consumer Reports is coming to town? Or rather, it’s issued its annual list of the companies it considers to be bad little boys and girls and those who are to be held up as examples to the rest of’em. … [More]

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McKinsey Predicts The War For Talent Will Go Nuts By 2020

Despite all the talk from Peter Thiel and others about how college is a poor investment, a new study from McKinsey finds that one of the biggest employment trends in coming decades will be a shortage of high-skill, college-educated workers for all advanced economies.

An intensifying global war for talent means that there will be as much as an 18 million worker shortfall in the world's richest countries. They'll be producing too few of the workers businesses really need, and too many with only high school or vocational training.  

Here's McKinsey's breakdown of future demand and supply trends for workers:

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Best Buy's Stock Price Falls to a Millennium Low

Best Buy storeMore black days are ahead for the blue shirts of Best Buy (BBY).

Shares of the consumer electronics giant were crushed on Tuesday after another disappointing quarter. The stock sunk to levels that Best Buy investors hadn't seen since the 1990s. Then again, it's a safe bet that many of those shareholders wish that they could go back in time to relive the chain's glory years.

Unfortunately, the future doesn't look very encouraging.

Let's go over some of the reasons why Best Buy has fallen to a millennium low -- and why things may get worse.

1. Positive comps and margins are inversely related

CEO Hubert Joly has highlighted two problems that need mending at Best Buy. The chain needs to turn its negative same-store sales into gains. It also has to reverse the problematic trend of declining margins.

The problem here is that it's hard to fix one without making the other worse.

Lowering prices to make the chain competitive with Amazon.com (AMZN) and other cheaper retailers may help drum up sales. The company can overcome the negative comps in volume if electronics shoppers once again see Best Buy as a price leader. The problem with that is that is that gross margins will get clobbered.

The company's brazen decision to allow price matching in some product categories this season may help it boost sales by keeping tire kickers from leaving the store without buying what they want. But it's going to be at the expense of mauling its margins.

It's not Joly's fault. He's only been there for 11 weeks. It's not Best Buy's fault. Online retailers have meager overhead costs, and can pass on those savings to deal-seeking shoppers.

The equation cuts the other way, too. If the plan to boost margins involves trying to get customers to buy more of their insurance plans and services, those same gouged shoppers will want to buy online so they don't get had in person again.

2. Exclusivity won't save the day

A popular way for brick-and-mortar chains to beat online retailers is to offer exclusive merchandise. You won't find IKEA furniture other than through IKEA. Target (TGT) is a great mainstream example. The "cheap chic" department store chain teams up with home and apparel designers for product lines that can only be bought at Tar-jay.

Best Buy wants to play in that sandbox.

During Tuesday's conference call, Best Buy discussed its plan to cash in on Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 8. Best Buy is stocking 45 PC models that can only be purchased at Best Buy. It may sound like a good plan. The showrooming impact is tripped up because that model can't be priced against the same PC at other retailers. However, these PCs are merely spec sheets. If a computer with similar specs can be had for less elsewhere -- and it probably can be -- Best Buy won't get the sale.

As Best Buy continues to shrink in relevance, manufacturers will have less reason to give a hot product only to Best Buy. The chain will get the leftovers in niches that are commodities anyway.

If Best Buy could have set itself apart with proprietary consumer electronics don't you think that it would have done so with its own Insignia lines?

3. Best Buy is practically groveling

"Encourage everybody to shop at Best Buy between now and Christmas," were Joly's final remarks to analysts during Tuesday's earnings call. "And as you shop there, please give us feedback on your experience, both the good and the bad as we're focused on driving the customer experience now."

Really?

"I look forward to your purchases and your feedback."

In that order?

Coming from any other company this would come off as an endearing sendoff heading into the telltale holiday shopping season. But given Best Buy's horrendous fundamentals these days it's hard to tell. If "getting analysts and their families to spend more money at Best Buy" is part of the plan to turn comps positive, don't be surprised if the feedback proves to be as negative as the store-level sales growth will be.

Motley Fool contributor Rick Munarriz does not own shares in any of the stocks in this article. The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Microsoft. Motley Fool newsletter services have recommended buying shares of Amazon.com and creating a synthetic covered call position in Microsoft.




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Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/11/20/apple-nike-and-more-stocks-that-feast-during-thanksgiving-week/

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Here's How A College Basketball Player Scored 138 Points In A Game Last Night

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Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College scored 138 points to shatter the all-time college record last night.

So how'd he do it?

It basically comes down to system. Grinnell, a liberal arts school in Iowa, has an offensive strategy where they try to shoot as many three pointers in a game as possible, while substituting on five players at a time in "hockey lines" to press the opposition and run. Here's how Sports Illustrated described it in 2005:

For the past 12 years, the Pioneers have been running a frantic, one-of-a-kind system that's been described as "hockey on hardwood," like "five mice being let out of a shoebox." An invention that's been alternately labeled "one of the finest innovations ever in college basketball" and "a mockery of the game."

Taylor scored 138 points on 52-108 shooting (48%), and 27-71 (38%) from three-point range. He didn't have a particularly good shooting game, and he wasn't even all that efficient. He reached 138 points by his sheer volume of shots. He missed more shots than some college teams take in a game.

Here are a few odds and ends from the game.

What the scoreboard looked like:

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A short video of Taylor making a bunch of threes:

Kobe's reaction was priceless. From Kevin Ding of the OC Register:

"Really? That's crazy. He must've been wearing Mambas, because only Mambas have no conscience to shoot that much."

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DirecTV Says It Will Credit Accounts Of Customers With Rebooting Tivos

Earlier today, we told you about the angry DirecTV customers with Tivo DVRs that are rebooting on a regular basis. The satellite service has since responded to our request for a comment regarding timeline and compensation for affected users.

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Time Warner Extended CEO Jeff Bewkes Contract For Another 5 Years

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Time Warner has extended the contract of chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes by five years to 2017, the company announced on Tuesday.

The extension won't affect Bewkes' base salary and bonus target, which will remain unchanged. The agreement does include long-term incentive awards tied directly to financial and shareholder returns in the future.

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“Jeff’s compensation reflects his and the Company’s strong performance since 2008, especially in delivering strong financial results in a competitive market and in the digital leadership of our businesses," said Stephen F. Bollenbach, the lead independent director of Time Warner's Board of Directors. "The structure of his pay also takes into consideration the views of our major stockholders and expressly ties his pay to the long-term financial success of the company.”

Bewkes became Time Warner's chairman and CEO in 2009, a year after being appointed as the company's president and CEO. Previously he had served as Time Warner's president and COO, as well as chairman of Time Warner's Entertainment and Networks group.

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Bewkes' resume also includes a stint as CEO of HBO.

“It is a pleasure to work with such a dedicated Board of Directors and I appreciate their confidence in me and in the strategy we have formulated to drive the company’s growth,” Bewkes said.  “With Time Warner’s exceptional management team we have created some of the most compelling content in the world, we have led the way in developing new business models that capitalize on emerging consumer trends, we’ve expanded our reach internationally and we’ve improved the operating and the capital efficiency of the Company.  I’m even more confident about what we’ll achieve over the next five years.”

Time Warner's third-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations this year, with the company's film division pushing the company to a 57 percent increase in earnings with revenues of $7.1 billion. The company reported $822 million in profits for the third quarter.

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