LinkedIn redesigns Pulse to give your news a human touch

LinkedIn's news app, Pulse, is getting a major face lift.

The company launched a redesigned version of Pulse's iOS and Android app on Wednesday, taking a more curated approach to surfacing news stories — a major departure from the app's previous approach to news delivery.

The previous version of Pulse had a more RSS-like model, with a nearly endless stream of stories from all the publishers you followed. The new Pulse features a cleaner design, which is more in line with LinkedIn's other apps

The home page of the app now displays a feed of personalized stories based on data from your LinkedIn profile. The app uses information like your job title, industry, company and connections to surface stories it thinks will be most relevant to you. The publishers you followed on the previous version of the app will be taken into account in Pulse's recommendations Read more...