LinkedIN Acquires Pulse for $90 Million

A BIG Congrats First of All. Had a chance to attend one of Pulse’s open-invite developer events a couple months ago and spoke with Co-Founder and CTO Ankit Gupta about how much progress they’ve made and how incredible of a framework/platform they’ve built to do the things that Pulse does.  If you’re not already familiar with Pulse, then you should know at the very least, it’s “a fast and beautiful way to read your favorite blogs, magazines, social networks and newspapers.”   Back to the point, LinkedIn has announced a deal to buy Pulse, at an offer of $90 million. While LinkedIN hasn’t announced any specific plans for Pulse, they note: it wants to be the “definitive professional publishing platform,” where “professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content.” Other thoughts include: LinkedIn using the technology to improve LinkedIn Today, (its own aggregation service), gaining access to publishers that have already been acquired by Pulse, demographic data, and additional advertising opportunities. One thing that’s been...