LinkedIn buys Pulse

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:48:28 +0000

The largest professional networking site is broadening its horizons, on the 18th LinkedIn announced the purchase of the mobile application Pulse, which works as an aggregator of internet content, such as news and blogs.

LinkedIn paid 90 million dollars for the application that emerged from an academic project by Ankit and Akshay in 2010 at Stanford University and was currently held by the California company Alphonso Labs.

The amount will be paid 90% in shares and 10% in cash, the social network said, according to it, Pulse has more than 30 million users from around 190 countries and distributes content from more than 750 publishers.

Startups in Brazil

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:11:03 +0000

The dream of Brazil’s IT visionaries is closer to becoming reality, on April 15 a StartUp program created by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) was launched by the government, the call for applications from interested startups is on the Start-Up Brasil program’s website (2013 call for applications, now offline).

Around 30% of the competing startups will be international, applications open on April 25 and close on May 31, the results of this first stage will be released from June 25 on the CNPq website and in the Official Gazette of the Union.

Startups on jpcercal.com

LinkedIn buys Pulse

Startups in Brazil