Pulse was an early iPhone and iPad news reader that brought stories from different publishers into a visual reading interface. If you followed an old link to “The Pulse Grows Stronger Yet,” this updated archive guide explains the Pulse.me feature covered in our June 2011 article and how the product later changed.
What Pulse.me added in 2011
The original article covered saving stories for later reading across Pulse-enabled devices. A “me” control collected saved articles, while the accompanying Pulse.me website made them accessible in a browser. The appeal was continuity: a reader could find something on one device and return to it on another.
That was a report about the service in 2011, not a claim that those accounts, saved stories or integrations work today. A surviving syndicated copy, which links back to this site’s original article, helped us identify the missing page’s subject.
From independent reader to LinkedIn Pulse
LinkedIn’s April 2013 acquisition announcement identified Pulse as a product of Alphonso Labs, founded by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta in 2010. It reported more than 30 million activated users across its iOS and Android apps at that time.
In June 2015, LinkedIn introduced a redesigned Pulse built around professional news recommendations. Its announcement described personalized stories, saving articles and following authors. It also said the new apps would replace the earlier versions, with the old apps supported only through the end of that year. The image on this page comes from that 2015 announcement; it does not show the 2011 interface.
Looking for an iPhone feed reader now?
Readers who want to choose their own RSS sources can start with our NetNewsWire guide for iPhone. It links to the developer and official App Store listing and explains how a feed reader differs from a recommended-news feed. NetNewsWire is a separate product, not a continuation of Pulse or a recovery tool for an old Pulse account.
Archive updated October 15, 2026. Historical identification: syndicated copy of “The Pulse Grows Stronger Yet”. Product image: LinkedIn’s 2015 Pulse announcement.