On 11 April 2013 it was announced as previously rumoured that LinkedIn had purchased Pulse from Alphonso Labs for $90 million.

Pulse was listed among Time Techland's 50 Best Android Applications for 2013. Also included in the update was a new icon and the ability to add an unlimited number of news feeds. It included a redesigned sidebar similar to the one found on the web app for switching between pages. On 8 November 2012 Pulse 3.0 was released for iOS and Android. Written in HTML5 the app works with all modern web browsers, however a special partnership formed between Alphonso Labs and Microsoft brings unique features such as gestures to users of Internet Explorer 10. The app featured a radically different design using different sized tiles put together to form a 'mosaic' like interface. On 9 August 2012 a Pulse web app was announced. This raised the profile of the app helping it to gain even more popularity. In 2011 Pulse was selected as one of 50 apps in Apple's App Store Hall of Fame and named one of TIME's top 50 iPhone apps of the year. On 15 November 2010 Pulse was made a free app for iOS and Android. On 1 October 2010 Pulse version 2.0 was released, this update included the ability to add up to 60 news feeds and introduced pages that could be configured to show different types of news. Later that month the app was also released for Android smartphones. It featured the same interface and features as the iPad version on a smaller scale. On 2 July 2010 a version of the app was released for iPhone and iPod Touch named Pulse News Mini. The app was approved once again and restored to the App Store later the same day after removing The New York Times feed. On 8 June 2010, the app was temporarily removed from the App Store hours after it was mentioned by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at WWDC 2010, because The New York Times complained to Apple that the app pulled content from the and RSS feeds in violation of the terms of use prohibiting commercial redistribution. Pulse received positive reviews for its easy to use interface. The company they formed, Alphonso Labs, was one of the first to use Stanford's business incubator SSE Labs. The app was created by Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari (two Stanford University graduate students) as part of a course at the Institute of Design. Pulse was originally released in May 2010 for the Apple iPad.

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