Facebook Gets New Look Today

MOBILE, Ala. - Another "new look for Facebook" is on the way. The social networking site  is unveiling a redesign of its news feed at a press event today.

Changes to Facebook's layout always bring strong reactions from users. The company sent an invitation to journalists saying, "Come see a new look for news feed." The event is happening at noon our time.

There's plenty of speculation on tech blogs on what exactly the changes will be. Facebook's news feed debuted in 2006 and has gone through several changes.

Just a week after CEO Marissa Mayer ended a Yahoo! employees  "work from home" program, Best Buy announced it too is ending its flexible work program. Like Yahoo!, Best Buy has fallen on hard times, and they say they need "all hands on deck."

Best Buy says some of the four-thousand non-store workers in its former work-from-home program may still get to telecommute or set flexible schedules. But, they'll no longer have the freedom to make those decisions without a manager, as they had in the past.

A new study shows employer credit checks are preventing the nation's hardest-hit job seekers from entering the workforce.

One in four unemployed Americans have been required to go through a credit check when applying for a job. One in ten have been denied jobs due to information in their credit report.

That's your Daily Tech.