July 2011
9 posts
Picture Perfect: Your Favorite Photography Sources...
Today we’re launching a brand new Photography category in Pulse. Photography lovers everywhere can set their sights on beautiful imagery from publications, independent photographers, popular blogs and more. Read more about the sources included in our new photography category below. If you find something you like, you can add it by going the Featured section and tapping on the Photography...
Be Inspired: New Art and Design Sources on Pulse!
In case you’re yearning for a dose of inspiration, this week we’re featuring brand new art and design sources on Pulse. Whether you’re interested in interior design, package design, information design or art we have you covered this week. Keep reading for more on our featured sources this week:
Better Living Through Design: Better Living Through Design (BLTD) began in 2005 as...
The Atlantic, Atlantic Wire, and National Journal...
At Pulse, we consider ourselves news junkies in the highest sense. As such, there is a short list of publications that whet our appetite for reporting, analysis and current affairs. Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with two of the country’s most iconic news sources – The Atlantic, including The Atlantic Wire, and its sister publication National Journal.
Pulse readers can browse...
Now on Pulse: Birchbox, Road & Track and Harvard...
We have a little something for everyone this week, including one of our favorite finds for beauty gurus, one of the top sources for car buffs, and business news read by executives and academics alike. Read more about our favorite sources this week below:
Birchbox: As veteran beauty editors and consumers, the Birchbox team knows first-hand how overwhelming the world of lacquers and lotions can...
Gilt City Now on Pulse!
Every morning, we wake to multiple daily deal emails featuring offers for new experiences and discounts on our favorite vendors. To help clear your already stuffed inbox, we’re excited to feature Gilt City, one of our favorite guides for exploring your city (and helping you save money while you do it).
To add Gilt City in Pulse, download the app here, tap the ‘+’ button to add a source, and...
The Time Is Now: The Pulse T-Shirt Giveaway!
That’s our iOS intern Daniel and he is oh so excited to be in his Pulse Team T-Shirt. Envious? Well now is your chance to be one of 15 lucky winners to get the Official Pulse Team T-Shirt delivered to your doorstep! Here’s how to enter.
Go to our Facebook Page here.
Like our page! Come on, we know you want to.
Comment on our last Facebook status update telling us why you use...
NBC News, Popular Science, Print and more now on...
Just in case you missed it, yesterday we released NBC News on Pulse! From the featured section, you can now add several NBC News sources like Top Headlines, Business and more! To see NBC News in action, take a look here. We’re not stopping there - today we’ve featured Popular Science, Harvard Business Review, Print and The Week. For more about our featured sources this week, keep...
News on Startups and Entrepreneurship Now on...
We’ve just added a new category to the Pulse featured section titled Startups & Entrepreneurship. You can now subscribe directly to several incredible venture capitalists, startup founders and advisers. Here’s some more information about the blogs and influencers we’re featuring today. Please do let us know who else you’d like to subscribe to!
A SMART BEAR: Startups,...
Photos, Politics, Pop Culture & More!
We have four new featured sources this week, so if you’re a photography, politics, culture or science buff, you’ll find something to add to your Pulse this week. Read more about our featured sources below and add them from the Featured section in Pulse.
Instagram: The photo-sharing app taking the world by storm is now on Pulse! Browse the top Instagram photos and what users are...
June 2011
8 posts
Pulse Summer Picks: Craft, The Idiotical, Devour,...
It’s almost 4th of July weekend and that means it’s summertime! This week, we’ve featured some of our summer favorites. So whether you’re lounging by the pool and listening to music, reading comics, cooking up a storm or crafting some summer goodies - you’ll be prepared with these sources in Pulse! Read all about them below.
CRAFT is dedicated to the renaissance...
Your Favorite Android & Apple Blogs Now on Pulse!
We know Apple lovers battle it out with Android lovers, but we happen to love both here at Pulse! We know that one thing in common between the two is the love of news about their platform of choice. This week we’re featuring some of our favorite Apple and Android blogs. For our Apple lovers, we’re featuring 9 to 5 Mac, Boy Genius Report, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, Drippler, Mac...
Pulse Partners with Groupon to Serve Up Deals Near...
Here on the Pulse team, we check our email inboxes first thing each morning for our daily Groupon deals. Just like reading the news, Groupon has become part of our daily routines. We are working hard to make news consumption on your mobile devices easier, and now we’re doing the same with your daily deals!
Today we partnered with Groupon, the local daily deals site you know and love, to serve up...
Announcing our Series A Financing
We’re very happy to announce today that we have raised $9 million in Series A financing from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Greycroft Partners, and Lerer Ventures. The capital will allow us to grow our engineering team and expand to additional platforms. We are also excited to announce that NEA’s co-head of consumer investing, Patrick Chung, will join our board of directors and Greycroft...
Featured Content: Home Designing, FN Dish, New...
It’s getting hot out there and it’s time for some refreshing new content! The new sources this week include the Food Network’s FN Dish, 9 to 5 Mac, Home Designing, The New York Observer and our Top Stories Shared in Tech brought to you by Lexus. Keep reading for more about our featured sources:
FN Dish - This blog brings you delicious tidbits from the Food Network. For simple...
Pulse Travel Picks, Daily Intel, Digital Trends &...
It’s summertime and we know many of you will be traveling to the warmest beaches and exploring new places! This week we’re releasing Pulse Travel Picks, a small selection of our favorite travel blogs. Whether you’ll be traveling all summer and want to find new destinations or you want to live through the experience by reading, we’ve got the news for you.
And...
Pulse Wins Apple Design Award!
One year ago at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference 2010, Steve Jobs showed off Pulse and changed all of our lives. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get tickets to the keynote and see it for ourselves. The next day we were #1 on the App Store and Pulse was no longer just a class project. We have come a long way since then - we have grown our team, expanded Pulse to multiple platforms...
Beautylish Now on Pulse!
We’ve worked with our friends at Beautylish to bring their content straight to Pulse! If you don’t already know (and how could you not?), Beautylish is a hub for the best beauty content on the web. The Beautylish team aims to improve the way women discover and learn about beauty products. You can now easily pair your beauty news with everything else you love to read in Pulse. Add...
May 2011
7 posts
TGIF: New Content Now in Pulse!
It’s Friday and we’re itching for something new to read, so check out what’s new on Pulse by heading over to the Featured section!
The Awl: The Awl intends to encourage a daily discussion of the issues of the day—news, politics, culture (and TV!)—during sensible hours of the working week.
Design Milk: An online magazine dedicated to modern design bringing you what’s fresh...
Hungry for More Top News? Pulse Top Stories Now on...
We added Top Stories newsfeeds to Pulse a few months ago as a way to easily consume the most popular stories read and shared by our users by category. We received lots of feedback from users saying they used Top Stories to get a quick breakdown of the most popular news stories in the categories they cared about most - whether that’s tech, politics or fashion. Because Top Stories were...
Wired Science & Forbes Blogs in Pulse!
Today we’ve featured Forbes Blogs and Wired Science in Pulse! With Forbes Blogs, Forbes contributors share the breaking news stories they’re reading from all areas of interest. Wired Science brings you news for your neurons from a network of science blogging All-Stars. Find both Wired Science and Forbes Blogs in the Featured section in Pulse!
