Earlier this week Yahoo! Finance launched a brand new app for the top-selling tablet on the market. iPad users now have anytime access to their portfolios and stocks they care about most through MarketDash. The new iPad app provides real-time market data, news and charts, letting you walk away from your desk, yet still stay in sync with your investments.
The interactive app takes advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch capabilities so you can manipulate views of stock charts; the ability to scroll across hours, days or months of market action; plot points in time; and even compare multiple stock tickers in one compelling chart. Anyone interested in following the market, or specific stocks on the iPad can now use Yahoo! Finance’s reliable and personalized tools anywhere, anytime.
We’ve become so dependent on our mobile devices that it’s important to have a seamless experience across all of the technology we use on a daily basis. That’s why Yahoo! Finance provides centralized storage of portfolios and watch lists.
Add a stock to a watch list from your iPad and it will show up instantly in the Yahoo! Finance app for iPhone or Android phones or when you view your portfolio on Yahoo! Finance. No matter where you log in to your account you will see updated and personalized portfolio data.
To download MarketDash, go to the App Store or search for MarketDash in the App Store from your iPad!
UPDATE
Ongoing product innovation is important to Yahoo! and we constantly test various product designs and features to gain valuable feedback and insights from our users. Part of this process includes identifying how we can make Yahoo! Finance even more useful and personally relevant.
On Tuesday night we started testing a new Yahoo! Finance Portfolio experience in the US to further enhance usability. Based on feedback about certain key features, we have chosen to move users back to the previous Portfolio experience and will make additional updates and modifications before we roll out the new features to our US users. The previous version will be back as soon as possible - we’re hoping to have it restored by the end of the day (Thursday).
Unrelated to the Portfolios redesign, we are currently experiencing an issue on a small select set of tickers on Yahoo! Finance. Tickers such as SPY, FPX, PLND, KCE and others. The team is actively working to restore these tickers. As a result, your Portfolio experience may show “No such ticker symbol”. We will have this issue resolved shortly.
Users that preferred the updated version can continue to access it through tour U.K. site or our Canada site. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
We’ll soon be launching a new version of Yahoo! Finance portfolios in the US. The update features a sleek new design, more flexible ways to create, view and modify portfolios, and a more intuitive user interface. All of your existing portfolios data will remain intact.
Below is a list of improvements that we think you’ll enjoy:
Creating portfolios: Simplified and streamlined the process.
Editing portfolios: Add and remove symbols directly from portfolio view page.
Adding holdings: Easily add holdings and cost-basis information used to calculate value and performance.
Sorting your data: Instantly sort data by clicking the table headings (”Last trade,” “Volume,” “Mkt Cap,” …).
New ‘Recent Quotes’ page: Detailed views from the popular “Recent Quotes” module on the front page.
Additional ways to create portfolios: Your “Recent Quotes” and “Multiple Quote” results can be saved as a portfolio for quick future access.
For a sneak peak at the new Yahoo! Finance portfolios, please visit our U.K. site or our Canada site, where the new design has already been launched. After you have logged in, click on the “My Portfolios” tab, and you will be able to view your portfolios as they will appear after the U.S. launch.
Portfolios are one of the top features on Yahoo! Finance and we will continue to refine the portfolios section and add new features and innovations over the coming months. Feel free to use the ‘Feedback’ link on the UK or Canada sites. We’ll also have ‘Feedback’ turned on in the US when we launch.
Whether you use portfolios to track your actual investments, to manage watchlists of companies or a combination of both, it’s our goal to deliver the functionality you need with an intuitive and reliable solution.
Are you on the hunt for the perfect tip, investing ideas or community thoughts around a particular ticker/company? Find it cumbersome to navigate from one site to another on the web? Want to stay in the know on the insider transactions, quarterly earnings, and analyst’s upgrades/downgrades all on the same page?
Your Yahoo! Finance team has a solution! Today, we released ‘Market Pulse’ which is an aggregated stream of information from around the web. We blend the quality data from our launch partners such as Stocktwits and Covestor with internal feeds to show what’s happening in real time. We believe this continuous stream of information will help you get an edge on your trades. More partners will be joining the stream soon.
Trending Pulse: While you are reading the pulse, you may be interested to know what’s buzzing on Market Pulse on Yahoo! Finance. Trending Pulse helps you identify companies that have an unusual amount of buzz among active investors throughout the tickers on Yahoo! Finance. We are very happy with the results and have discovered some interesting companies in this process. Hope you will find it useful too.
We have added feedback links at the bottom of all the Market Pulse pages. As always, we appreciate your feedback on the site.
The globalization train marches on. We have re-launched all the 5 sites in Europe. Investors in Europe now have access to all the good stuff that Yahoo! Finance has to offer. Here is a list of major new features :
Modern look and feel.
Quotes data now gets streamed.
Find stocks, funds and other instruments easily using the Autocomplete search box.
Today we’re very excited to announce the launch of our brand new Yahoo! Finance app for Android. Now our users with an Android device have access to the No. 1 finance site in the U.S. – built specifically for their phone.
With Yahoo! Finance for Android, some of the great features customers get include:
Real-time quotes*
Customizable stock watch list
Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios
Company stats and news
Tech Ticker videos
At launch the app is available only in the U.S., but soon we’ll make it available around the world with local content for each market.
To get the app, simply visit the Android Market from your Android device and search for Yahoo!. You’ll see Yahoo! Finance listed alongside some of the other great apps we’ve launched for Android.
You can also scan this barcode with your Android phone to access the app:
We hope you love the app!
Carl Teeple - North America product lead, mobile media products
Aaron Zitzer - Yahoo! Finance Product Manager
We are pleased to roll out new Yahoo! Finance sites for Australia and New Zealand . This is part of our strategy to bring all Yahoo! Finance properties on the global platform that allows us to roll out new features uniformly.
We kick started the globalization process with the launch of new sites in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Singapore in Mar 2010. Australia and New Zealand are part of the second wave. This does not end here. By the end of this year we would migrate many more regions to our global platform.
Our users from Down Under now have access to a highly improved charts experience. The charts are now bigger and interactive. Find tickers easily using the “Autocomplete” quote search box. The news reading experience has been enhanced. Share your favorite news articles on Facebook and Twitter using the Share buttons embedded in each article page. Check the market movers on the front-page.
We know you all spend time each day monitoring your current and researching new investments. Today Yahoo! Finance rolled out a series of new features to help you in this process, and also to help you discover new opportunities and news. Here is an overview of your new site features:
On Equity “Ticker” pages (example: YHOO, AAPL), you can now find comparisons between the ticker you are looking at and other related tickers in the same industry. Comparisons are shown between the daily price change %, as well as market cap.
For “Indices” pages (example: DJI), you now quickly get the biggest gainers and losers for the index listed right on the ticker home page.
For “Mutual Fund” quote pages (example: VFINX), you now get a quick snapshot of the Top Holdings right on the top level page — as many of you requested.
For all of our analysts out there…We have broken out Press Releases for you on each ticker page. Now you get quick access to the most recent official company announcements. We know that with all the news we offer it can often be difficult to find the original press release. This should now be easier for you.
Today the Yahoo! Finance team rolled out new Yahoo! Finance sites in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore. Already in 20+ countries around the world, this is the first wave of a global Yahoo! Finance platform that is rolling out across the globe. This global platform now enables new countries to be onboarded at a rapid pace, and all countries receive new features at the same time. If you are one of our users in these new countries, you will be excited to know that these sites are now upgraded with functionality you have seen on this U.S. website. This includes a new News reading experience, currency tools, localized content, a new Investing section, interactive charts, and more. Watch the sites closely over the coming months as additional content is added, as well as improvements to our industry leading Quote web pages.
Thank you for making Yahoo! Finance the #1 place you research and watch your investments - globally!
Earlier this week we made a number of updates to the Yahoo! Finance message boards. Among them was a move to the latest identity management system being used across much of Yahoo!. While there were some strong user benefits of this feature, it created a lot of confusion and we didn’t communicate with you as much as we should have. Based on your input, we have rolled back to the previous way of managing and displaying your identity on the message boards.
Over 20 million people come to Yahoo! Finance each month and many of you visit one or more of the nearly 1 million Finance message boards. Some use the message boards as a source for company research or to share investing tips and strategies. For others it’s just a source of entertainment.
Regardless of your reason for visiting, it’s essential that your virtual identity is protected and that you can trust that the authors of the messages you read are who you think they are. Many of you have been using the Finance message boards for years, have developed reputations based on your insights and have even built friendships. Your identity is your personal brand on the message boards and it must be protected.
Unfortunately, communities this large and focused often become the target of abuse. That’s certainly the case for the Finance message boards. Efforts earlier this year helped to reduce the incidents of reported abuse by 45% but we still have a long way to go. We’re also constantly working to improve other issues like message boards that are missing when there is a new ticker or a ticker change.
Issues related to abuse and privacy are what prompted the new features this week. As soon as we saw your reaction, people across the organization immediately began evaluating a number of solutions and ultimately decided to remove the new feature.
You have our commitment that any future changes like this will be clearly communicated well ahead of time, that your voices will be heard and that your input will help guide the final implementation. We ALWAYS welcome your feedback and suggestions.
The Yahoo! Finance Message Boards were updated yesterday to support improvements in the way that user profiles can be used. In addition to new features, these updates are designed to help protect your identity, to give you more control and flexibility, and to prevent spam and abuse. For more information on Profiles please visit the Profiles blog.
We want to make it very clear that your privacy and user experience are extremely important. You can still post and reply to messages without publicly exposing your personal information. However, the process has changed a bit. This post provides a step-by-step tutorial. Most of these steps will only need to be completed once.
In order to post or reply to a message on the Yahoo! Finance Message Boards, you need to be signed in to a Yahoo! account.
You can choose to post your message using your primary name or a private alias. If you prefer to use a private alias, users on the message boards will only see your alias name and it will not link to your profile. This tutorial will show you how to create and use a private alias on the message boards. Of course, if you prefer, you can also simply change your full name and display name in your profile settings. Additional information on aliases.
Uncheck any aliases that you want to remain private then click save.
Now, when you go post or reply to a message on the Yahoo! Finance Message Boards, you’ll see your identities listed in the ‘Identity’ dropdown box.
If you want to keep your identity private, be sure to use the alias that was unchecked in the previous settings page. Messages that are posted using a private alias will not display your name or profile information and will not link to your profile. Look forward to seeing your posts!
To celebrate the launch of our brand new Yahoo! Finance iPhone app, we are giving our Yahoo! Finance Twitter followers a chance to win a $99 Apple Gift Certificate which can be used towards the purchase of an iPhone*.
Yahoo! Finance will be asking a trivia question on Twitter every week for 10 weeks. Tweet your answer for a chance to win a $99 Apple Gift Certificate which can be used towards the purchase of an iPhone*!
Here’s how you enter the contest:
1) Start by following @yahoofinance on Twitter
2) Tweet your answer to our weekly trivia question by replying to the question and specifying the iPhone contest.
For example: @yahoofinance [answer] iPhone contest
The question will be tweeted on Mondays and the first person to answer correctly will win.
“Yahoo! Finance Trivia” Promotion
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
ABOUT THE PROMOTION/ELIGIBILITY:
The Yahoo! Finance Trivia Promotion (the “Promotion”) begins at 12:01 AM PT on 9/14/09, and ends at 11:59 PM PT on 11/22/09. The Promotion is only open to legal US residents 18 years or older at the time of entry. Entrants must have a public Twitter account to participate in the Promotion. Employees and agents of Yahoo! Inc. (“Sponsor”), its affiliates, subsidiaries, and any entity involved in the development, production, implementation, administration or fulfillment of the Promotion and the immediate family members and persons living in the same household as such individuals, are not eligible to participate or win. Participation in the Promotion constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which are final in all respects.
HOW TO ENTER:
To enter, sign up or log on to your Twitter account. A valid email address is required to enter.Yahoo! Finance will ask a finance-related question every Monday at 12 Noon EST for 10 weeks. The first verified eligible Entrant to answer the question correctly will be the weekly winner. Yahoo!’s computer is the official time clock for this Promotion.
IMPORTANT: Answer the question by replying to the question and specifying the iPhone contest: @yahoofinance [answer] iPhone contest
No attempts to enter by other means will be accepted. Yahoo! is not responsible for incomplete, lost, late, garbled, unintelligible or misdirected entries, or for any errors or failures of any kind (including but not limited to human error) in the transmission, receipt, or processing of entries.
WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION:
Weekly winners (10 total) will be selected by Sponsor’s representatives and will be notified by a direct message on Twitter. To receive a prize, winners may be required to sign, notarize and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (except where prohibited by law) and must provide a valid postal mailing address. Winner documentation must be returned within seven (7) days from the date sent or prize will be forfeited. Return of any prize/prize notification as undeliverable, or inability of Sponsor to contact a potential Winner may result in disqualification and the weekly entry with the next highest score for that week will become the weekly winner, subject to verification. Limit one entry per person per week and one prize per person for the entire promotion.
PRIZES:
Ten 10 winners will each receive one (1) $99.00 Apple gift certificate subject to terms and conditions stated on gift certificate. Approximate retail value of all prizes is: $990.00. Reporting and payment of all applicable taxes, fees, and/or surcharges are the sole responsibility of each winner. Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen prize. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any prize with another prize of equal or greater value at its sole discretion. Any difference between the actual value of a prize and the approximated prize value as stated in these rules will not be awarded.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:
By entering, participants release and hold harmless Yahoo!, its subsidiaries, affiliates, employees and agents form any and all liability or any injuries, loss or damage arising from or in connection with participation in this promotion or acceptance/use of the prize.
GENERAL:
This Promotion is governed by the laws of the United States. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Yahoo! reserves the right to suspend, cancel, or modify this promotion if fraud or any other causes beyond its control destroys the integrity of the promotion, as determined by Yahoo! in its sole discretion.
PRIVACY:
By entering the Promotion, you agree to Yahoo!’s use of your personal information as described in Yahoo!’s Privacy Policy.
WINNERS’ LIST:
The names of the winners will be posted on the Finance blog at the conclusion of the promotion.
Past Trivia Questions and Winner’s List
Week 3 Question: What Federal Reserve note denomination (US currency) has the shortest average life span? Answer: The $5 bill Winner: Donna Battle
Week 2 Question: On what date did the Dow Jones Industrial Average first close above 500? Answer: March 12, 1956 Winner: Michelle Martinez
Week 1 Question: Who was the chairman of the Federal Reserve when the stock market crashed in October 1929? Answer: Roy A. Young Winner: Doug Edwards
SPONSOR:
Yahoo! Inc., 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
