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FW: LinkedIn to buy news reader platform Pulse for $90 million


 

 

Feed: Technology Yahoo UK
Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013 03:45
Author: Technology Yahoo UK
Subject: LinkedIn to buy news reader platform Pulse for $90 million

 

(Reuters) - Professional social network LinkedIn Corp said it will buy Pulse, a news reader and mobile content distribution platform, for $90 million (58.4 million pounds) in cash and stock.

More than 30 million users have activated Pulse news reader apps on Apple Inc's iOS and Google Inc's Android operating systems.

LinkedIn will pay about 90 percent of the deal value in stock.

(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)


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