Bloomberg launches free Android app

Bloomberg News has launched an Android application for tablets.

The app is free, which means, like the Bloomberg.com website, it’s supported by advertising. Samsung is the premier launch partner, running campaigns about its newly released Galaxy Tab 10.1, the world’s thinnest mobile tablet with a 10-inch touch screen.

With the app, users can create personalized views of the news by industry, region, exclusivity, region or popularity. You can also read news related to particular stocks and see details for the open, close, high, or low during the last five years.

The app also features two home screen widgets, so if you want a quick snapshot of the stocks in your portfolio or a quick glance at the latest breaking news, you can get that. Also, you can read stories while off-line.

In addition to Android, Bloomberg currently has consumer apps for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Nokia.

Meanwhile, the Bloomberg Businessweek iPad app has added some features, including more audio and the ability to print articles wirelessly using AirPrint compatible printers, becoming the first business magazine to support this technology.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.