The service started out as an iPad app, but quickly expanded to other platforms, including the web. Pulse was founded in 2010 by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta while they were still students at Stanford University. “To continue to deliver that value to our members, our vision for content is that LinkedIn will be the definitive professional publishing platform, and Pulse is a perfect complement to this vision.” “We are thrilled to be able to add Pulse’s considerable talent, technology, and products to our growing ecosystem of content offerings, and we believe that they will help us accelerate our ability to deliver to our members the insights they need to be better at what they do, on any device,” said Deep Nishar, LinkedIn’s SVP of Products and User Experience, in a statement today. Millions of professionals are already starting their day on LinkedIn to glean the professional insights and knowledge they need to make them great at their jobs.” LinkedIn argues that it is acquiring Pulse because it wants the site to “be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content. Today’s announcement doesn’t come as a total surprise, given that there had been rumors about talks between the two companies for a few weeks now. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013. The transaction, LinkedIn says, is valued at approximately $90 million in a combination of about 90 percent stock and 10 percent cash. LinkedIn today announced that it has acquired Pulse, the popular newsreader for the web and mobile.
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