{"id":39129,"date":"2013-04-12T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39129"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:31:02","slug":"pulse-newsreader-acquired-by-linkedin-for-90-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pulse-newsreader-acquired-by-linkedin-for-90-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse Newsreader acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"pulse newsreader acquired by linkedin for $90 million\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/pulse-newsreader-acquired-by-linkedin-for-90-million\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39143\" title=\"linkedin icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/linkedin-icon.png\" alt=\"linkedin icon\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><a title=\"linkedin for android\" href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a> confirmed yesterday evening that it purchased the news reading app, <a title=\"pulse\" href=\"http:\/\/pulse-news.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulse<\/a>, for $90 million. LinkedIn now joins the ranks of CNN and Yahoo! in purchasing news reading apps. CNN acquired the <a title=\"zite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zite<\/a> news reader app, which looks like a hybrid between <a title=\"flipboard\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/flipboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flipboard<\/a> and <a title=\"pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pinterest<\/a>. Yahoo! purchased the mobile news aggregator, Summly, in March of this year. Like the other newsreader acquisitions, it&#8217;s not clear how exactly Pulse will be integrated with LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to speculate what LinkedIn will do with Pulse as it evolves beyond a professional social network. While LinkedIn already has its own news feed for industry stories, it&#8217;s not as consumer oriented nor as flexible as Pulse. With the death of Google Reader, other news aggregators and news feed apps have taken off. LinkedIn is no doubt riding this resurgence in popularity for news reader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39144\" title=\"pulse linkedin\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/pluse-linkedin.png\" alt=\"pulse linkedin\" width=\"596\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/pluse-linkedin.png 596w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/pluse-linkedin-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, LinkedIn has reassured Pulse users that the service will stay the same. Of course, this could change in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"linkedin\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.linkedin.com\/2013\/04\/11\/welcome-pulse-to-linkedin-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn confirmed yesterday evening that it purchased the news reading app, Pulse, for $90 million. LinkedIn now joins the ranks of CNN and Yahoo! in purchasing news reading apps. CNN acquired the Zite news reader app, which looks like a hybrid between Flipboard and Pinterest. Yahoo! purchased the mobile news aggregator, Summly, in March of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pulse-newsreader-acquired-by-linkedin-for-90-million\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pulse Newsreader acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":39144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2550],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionlinkedin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333115,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129\/revisions\/333115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}