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Yahoo Finance unveils redesigned app

Robby Stein, director of product management at Yahoo, writes about its redesigned application for Yahoo FInance.

Stein writes:

For Android devices, our team rebuilt the app from the ground up, bringing you a new home experience organized around your stock quotes and company news. The new app also delivers push notifications about relevant breaking news and provides enhanced interactive charts for any quote.

The updated app for iPhone and iPad now delivers real-time stock quotes front and center. In addition, the app creates a personalized newsfeed from all the stocks and companies you follow.  Everything updates in real time, giving you a quicker, more seamless experience on the go.

We’ve also listened to your feedback, which voiced a desire to more easily find great Yahoo Finance stories. So we’ve added a News tab, which helps you stay up to date on the market — whether it’s need-to-know news about interest rates or the latest on housing prices.

Read more here.

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.

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