LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape

Stepping even further into the media fray, LinkedIn announced today that it has acquired the popular news reader app Pulse.

Pulse takes on Flipboard with new social news integration update

News aggregation service Pulse is turning its attention to the mess of news that's shared by friends across multiple social networks.

Pulse’s new web reader looks like a pretty Windows 8 app

Digital magazine service Pulse released a new web app version of its popular mobile news reader today, which takes plenty of design cues from Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 software.

From MIT to Stanford, college classes where a startup is the final exam

College campuses are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a beer.

Given the amount …

Pulse news app teases major announcement on its homepage

Mobile news aggregation service Pulse is planning a major announcement in the near future, according to the startup’s homepage.

Pulse updated its homepage earlier today to tease the announcement. Initially, users are shown a short animation of Pulse’s launch on …

Pulse adds local content, partners with Patch, Zagat, Groupon, and more

Pulse has gone from college project to social news powerhouse in two years’ time. Friday, the blossoming business is taking a leap forward by going local.

Pulse, made by startup Alphonso Labs, has launched Pulse Local to provide application users …

Pulse grows from 1M to 11M users in 2011, works on monetization

Pulse, which makes a news reading app for Apple and Android tablets and smartphones, threw a party in the penthouse of the Kimberly Hotel last night to celebrate it big growth. “These guys offered to pay me for using our …

Slick news reader Pulse heads to Windows Phone, taking its time with ads

Windows Phone 7 users, rejoice! This week, the gorgeous news reader app Pulse will finally make its way to Microsoft’s new mobile platform, the company announced in a blog post today.

The free app will join Pulse’s family of iPhone, …