AT&T May Ride Out Verizon iPhone Storm

AT&T (NYSE: T) collected US$31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion — 60 cents per share — in profit, according to Thursday’s second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year’s second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performance was in line with forecasts. …

LinkedIn Acquires mSpoke [LinkedIn Has Acquired mSpoke to Shore Up Its Recommendation Technology Content]

LinkedIn aims to improve its current content for recommendation technology and the acquisition of mSpoke should make all that happen. the professional social networking provider formally acquired mSpoke although no details on the deal were disclosed. With the acquisition, LinkedIn plans to build an adaptive personalization engine which should help combine advanced machine learning technology …