May 2011
7 posts
Breaking Business News: CNNMoney Now on Pulse!
Look no further for breaking business news. We’ve partnered with CNNMoney to bring you a special newsfeed for the best business content on the web and in print. CNNMoney is the online home of Fortune Magazine and Money Magazine serving as CNN’s business news hub. Delivering breaking business news and comprehensive market coverage, the CNNMoney newsfeed in Pulse includes news,...
AskMen's Top 29 Cities to Visit Now on Your Pulse!...
AskMen, the leading men’s lifestyle website, announced their editors’ picks for the Top 29 Cities to Visit in the world. We have partnered with AskMen to feature the Top 29 Cities in Pulse to serve as the ultimate guide for adventure in new places. Based on criteria including “explorability,” sports, culture, and nightlife, AskMen chose the top spots this year. If you’re looking for your...
Your Favorite Magazines Now on Pulse!
We’ve featured some of our favorite magazine content this week in Pulse! Find out what these great magazines bring to the table and add them to your Pulse by heading to the Featured section!
GOOD Magazine offers articles, commentary, fiction and comics on culture and society. GOOD’s content covers a wide variety of topics to “move the world forward” including...
Pulse Picks: Mother's Day Gift Guide!
Stumped on what gift to get for Mother’s Day? Let’s take a step back - did you know Mother’s Day was coming up this Sunday? Whether you’ve been prepping your gift for weeks or just realized you have no idea what gift you’re giving, you’re in luck! This week we’re introducing a Mother’s Day Gift Guide curated by Pulse. All of the items featured are...
April 2011
7 posts
Royally Informed: The Royal Wedding at Your...
With the Royal Wedding only a day away, Pulse is the perfect place to find out what the bride is wearing, who the famous guests are and every tidbit of information about the most anticipated wedding in all of England! The Royal Wedding newsfeed in Pulse is curated to bring you the best news across the top news sources covering the event. Get your Royal Wedding fix by going to the Featured...
Brand New Sources: Tech, Entertainment, Sports &...
We have fantastic new content to add to the Pulse Catalog this week - everything from entertainment to tech, sports and media. It’s also playoff season, so don’t forget to get the news about the top NBA teams and draft picks in Pulse! For more about our new sources, keep reading and add them from our Featured section in Pulse!
MTV News: Read the latest breaking music, celebrity,...
Going Zen: Health & Wellness News Now in Pulse!
It’s spring time (at least at the Pulse offices in Palo Alto) and it’s a great time to take strides to improve your health and wellness! This week you can find sources to help you calm your lifestyle, get fit, unclutter your life and more! Keep reading for more about the featured sources and head on over to the featured section to check them out!
Zen Habits is about finding simplicity...
Don't Wanna Miss A Thing: Top Stories From Last...
Our Top Stories newsfeeds in Pulse are a quick way to digest the most popular news in your favorite category. As our users read and share posts, you can easily see which stories are trending with the most read and share activity. Were you too busy to catch up on the trending news last week or do you want to know what was the most popular news overall? Below are the overall top stories read and...
Only two things in life are certain: Good News in...
It’s almost April 15th and that means the tax deadline is upon us! To make sure you get all the deductions you’re due, we’ve featured the Mint Life personal finance blog. It’s also the time for NHL Hockey playoffs and we’ve featured Puck Daddy for all of the news that happens on the ice! We’ve also featured content from our partners CNET, CNNGo and Uncluttered...
Breaking News: Straight from Popular Writers!
With Pulse, news from your favorite publishers, blogs, social websites and Facebook friends is at your fingertips. Today, we’re taking it one step further.
Introducing Pulse Popular Writers! You can now subscribe directly to 20 incredible writers, so that you never miss a post from them. Whether it’s news from Pulitzer Prize winning reporters like Nicolas Kristof, political bloggers...
Pulse Completes Unprecedented Round of Funding
Today, we are excited to announce a historic $41 round of financing. This has been an incredible ten months for Pulse; the journey that began as a class project has catapulted into the best way to consume news for millions of users across the Android and iOS platforms.
Pulse plans to use the funds to reward the team with Subway’s five-dollar footlong sandwiches - the remaining capital will...
March 2011
5 posts
PULSE NEWS LAUNCHES 2.0 UPDATE FOR ANDROID AND...
Today we released a major update to Pulse for Android and iPhone! Pulse 2.0 combines enhanced performance, new content sources and improved sharing with social feeds and news discovery features. Pulse 2.0 builds on the existing app you know and love to deliver an experience that is faster, more comprehensive, and more social than ever before! Explore all the new features below:
Three Times...
One of our favorites: Hacker News now on Pulse!
One of our favorite ways to get our news each morning (and multiple times throughout the day) is Hacker News, a community site started by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator. What kind of news is this? As Paul Graham says, “Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything...
A Wonderful Lifestyle: A Brand New Category, SXSW...
We’ve been waiting quite a while to reveal our new lifestyle content in Pulse and today it’s finally live in the Pulse Catalog! You’ll recognize a few of our featured partners from the last few months like Curbed, AskMen, Livestrong & Robb Report. We’ve also added brand new sources like Whole Living Daily, Ikeahacker and Parent Dish. We invite you to see what’s...
Just Added: News About the Japan Quake & Tsunami
We were devastated to hear about the earthquake and resulting tsunami that took place in Japan this week. We were filtering through the tweets, news alerts and videos about Japan and we knew there had to be a way to get the most relevant and up to the minute news in Pulse. Today we added a Japan Quake and Tsunami newsfeed, which you can add from the featured section in all versions of Pulse. We...
Featured Friday: The Atlantic, Details, TV Guide &...
You’ll recognize many of the featured sources this week as the ones you see everyday on your newsstands including The Atlantic, TV Guide, Bon Appetit, Details and OK! Magazine. You can easily swipe through the content in Pulse and explore colorful and engaging images throughout these newsfeeds. We’ve also included your tech fix for the week with Android Community and Macworld, the...
February 2011
7 posts
Featured Friday: Something for Everyone!
We hope you enjoyed the update from last week featuring social feeds Reddit, Digg, Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr and Picplz. If you missed it, check out the social category in the Pulse catalog to add them to your Pulse. Onto the next one! We have some fantastic new sources this week running the gamut from tech, to beauty & fashion, dog culture, Wall Street, gaming, and food & beverage. No matter...
Moving beyond RSS, Venturing into APIs
There has been a lot of discussion around Really Simple Syndication (RSS), whether it is alive or dead. In fact, a small war broke out on twitter.
At Pulse, we use RSS to power a lot of the news streams, but we have never marketed ourselves as a “RSS reader”. RSS, as many have noted, sounds very geeky - something we find impossible to explain to our mothers. RSS provides the...
Pulse for iPad 2.2: A Faster, Better Pulse
We’re excited to announce a new and improved Pulse for iPad, now available in the App Store. Keep reading to see all of the new improvements and features. Enjoy!
Category Packs: If you have an empty page in Pulse, we’ve added new category packs to choose from based on your news interests. You can easily populate your pages based on our most popular categories of news.
Fast and...
Featured Friday: Valentine's Day and Fashion Week...
We’ve got a special announcment coming later today, but we won’t leave you hanging without new content to add to your Pulse! We have featured content from Nerd Valentine to help you pick some last minute geek gifts for your valentine. We also have fashion week content for those of you who can’t make it to the front row this year from Racked. We also have new content from...
