PULSE
Pulse was created in May 2010 by Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari, two Stanford graduate students as part of a course at the Institute of Design. The inspiration for Pulse was borne out of their frustration with the news reading experience on mobile devices. To solve this problem, they developed the first version of Pulse on iPad in 6 weeks. Pulse combines RSS feeds, partner content, social feeds and news discovery features to provide an unparalleled news reading experience on tablets and mobile phones. Pulse has been selected as one of just 50 apps in Apple's App Store Hall of Fame and named one of TIME's top 50 iPhone apps of 2011. Pulse is available as a free download for iPad, iPhone, and Android.