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had purchased Pulse from Alphonso Labs for $ 90 million. In the beginning of November 2013, version 4.0 was launched, integrating the Pulse app and LinkedIn. Along with the integration was a massive UI overhaul that was met largely by negative reviews by longtime users. On 17 June 2015, Pulse decided
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On 8 November 2012 Pulse 3.0 was released for iOS and Android. It included a redesigned sidebar similar to the one found on the web app for switching between pages. Also included in the update was a new icon and the ability to add an unlimited number of news feeds.
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complained to Apple that the app pulled content from the nytimes.com and boston.com RSS feeds in violation of the terms of use prohibiting commercial redistribution. The app was approved once again and restored to the App Store later the same day after removing
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On 1 October 2010 Pulse version 2.0 was released, this update included the ability to add up to 60 news feeds and introduced pages that could be configured to show different types of news.
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On 9 August 2012 a Pulse web app was announced. The app featured a radically different design using different sized tiles put together to form a 'mosaic' like interface. Written in
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to completely redesign the new experience from the ground up. The stated reason for this change was to deliver personalized news from a user's professional network (primarily from
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graduate students) as part of a course at the Institute of Design. The company they formed, Alphonso Labs, was one of the first to use Stanford's business incubator
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On 25 November 2015, LinkedIn announced that the original Pulse app was to be retired on 31 December 2015, after which user feeds ceased to update.
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browsers, originally released in 2010. The app, in its original incarnation, was deprecated in 2015 and integrated into
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the app works with all modern web browsers, however a special partnership formed between Alphonso Labs and
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version on a smaller scale. Later that month the app was also released for
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named Pulse News Mini. It featured the same interface and features as the
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On 11 April 2013 it was announced as previously rumoured that
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On 8 June 2010, the app was temporarily removed from the
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On 2 July 2010 a version of the app was released for
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brings unique features such as gestures to users of
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was a news aggregation app originally developed for
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Index

Pulse (Application)

Developer(s)
LinkedIn
Platform
Web Browser
iOS
Android
Type
News aggregator
License
linkedin.com/pulse
Android
iOS
HTML5
LinkedIn

Apple
iPad
Stanford University
SSE Labs
App Store
Apple
Steve Jobs
WWDC 2010
The New York Times
iPhone
iPod Touch
iPad
Android

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