At midnight on Tuesday, something great happened. Something BRILLIANT. Yahoo! Finance launched 15 new pages across Europe to some great user feedback. But it wasn’t just the pages that we should be rightly proud of –- it’s the united Global Yahoo! Finance team behind it; the upgraded processes and infrastructure behind the design.
Engineers, programme and product managers in eight Yahoo! offices and four time zones worked as One Yahoo! to make the vision of a Global Finance Team a reality. Until six months ago, the vast majority had never worked together or even met – but this hasn’t stopped us working as a team and delivering a great product.
Together, we’ve upgraded the technology behind the scenes and linked together the EU and US infrastructure systems. We’ve successfully piloted brand new Global Finance QA processes and run joint EU/US maintenance sprints.
We now work in a 24 hour cycle. The US programmers assign everyone their tasks. The US engineers code, the QA team in Grenoble tests the code whilst the EU engineering carry on their work, the product mangers and production team prioritise the bugs, update specs and do translations in time for the evening call. And then we start all over again.
This means we get great products to market quickly and we’re better supported than ever.
And the pages we launched? Well – the quotes pages now have automatically streaming share prices to keep our users up to date and some pages have been given a fresh look designed to make it easier to digest the financial information. In the current climate it’s never been so crucial to know what’s going on. Here are some links:
• New share price summary page
• Multiquote page
• Portfolios – if you’ve got a Yahoo! login create portfolio on the site
So what did our users think of the new pages? Here are just a few of the emails:
Jena: “The new look & design is what I have been waiting for. This is fabulous, 5***** quality. Keep it up.”
Adam Buchannan: “New portfolio page is brilliant, especially the streaming data.”
And this is just the start. We’re working together on the news article pages for launch in the US this month and new charts and search functionality for the EU in November. And there’s sooo much more to come! Finance IS exciting – and it’s never looked so good. 
Well done the Global Finance Team!
Tags: finance, Investing, Shares, Stocks
October 15th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I’d like to see the scrolling stock ticker tape implemented into the yahoo! mail “home” tab.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:47 am
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October 16th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I’m a big fan of Yahoo!!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
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October 16th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Is there a reason why so many of the quotes for stock prices (delayed) are wrong today?
For example, at closing today DSU was 3.29, which was down $0.03 from yesterday’s close at 3.32 (as reported by YF’s historical prices)… yet YF’s daily view shows a 12% fall for the day. WTF?
Same problem with other stocks too, such as AUY and SLW.
If this keeps happening, I can’t trust Yahoo Finance for managing my investments. Please have someone fix this, or figure out what is wrong with your data feed.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:45 am
Best of luck guys! So are you going to moving closer to each other, or staying far apart?
Working in different timezones can be hard…
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Now the first page is more cumbersome. Checking mail meanse a lot of advertisement and then the mail. In any case like most of us question of survival is being faced by all and in that perspective yahoo has done a good job. Thanks and best wishes to yahoo team
October 24th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I can’t wait to see what you do next …
Congrats on your progress so far!
October 27th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I like the changes you’ve made. One question: I am looking for widgets to add to my website, specifically something that will feed personal finance headlines and possible entire articles to my site. Do you have anything like that?
October 30th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Congrets on progress.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:37 am
What has happened to the price updates for 10/31/2008? It would be nice to have month end numbers for our portfolios. This is not progress. Thanks
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 am
That is great improvement for Yahoo Finance!
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Great accomplishment. But please fix the other serious problems on your site– no quotes or updates for mutual funds since 10/30/08. thanks you.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I congratulate you on going global, but first I suggest you iron out the problems in the US. I was not able to get any closing figures for Oct. 31st. It all came thru as Oct. 30th. I hope the Nov. 3rd numbers are correc, but to be sure, I’ll check them against my Fidelity figures.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:49 am
That is great . But please fix the other serious problems on your site– no quotes or updates for mutual funds since 10/30/08.
November 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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November 14th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I have been contacted by a buyer interested in selling an item, with payment to be made through Yahoo Finance. How is this accomplished?
November 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I like what I am seeing here, although it appears commodities are a bit hard to find. I wanted to use the site to set alerts for things like Oil, Gold, Silver, and as of yet have been unable to do so. Maybe I’m in the wrong place? Hoping for a hint or a clue, or a change to make the site a bit more user-friendly (or adding those features)
Thanks!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Rio Tinto is ripe for a takeover - at $63 it was a little expensive, at $30 its a steal……Breakup value is over $21 per share, net income $7b last half, with $53 billion in debt and rates coming down the cost to service this is about $2-3billion per annum, a drop in the ocean for the cashflows Rio produces (even after taking in the large commodity price drops - The world’s big miners and jumping in as we speak (xstrata)
December 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for recommending http://www.bankingorbust.com. It helped a lot!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
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December 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
is the app for bolsa mexicana is in development?
someone have any info about it?
thanks
cw
January 5th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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