Yahoo Finance Apps Revamped With a More Personal Touch

BY SETH FIEGERMAN

After overhauling its Yahoo Mail app and flagship news app earlier this year, Yahoo is finally taking aim at its Finance app.

The Yahoo Finance app for iPhone and iPad received a significant redesign Wednesday, which lets users customize their news feed by choosing which companies they want to follow. The overhauled apps also includes improved navigation features and more interactive charts to visualize stock price changes over time.

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"The Yahoo Finance app for iPhone and iPad was reimagined to deliver a beautiful personalized experience with a stream of top news and data based on your favorite stocks and interests," Alex Diaz, VP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo, wrote in a Tumblr post.

A rep for Yahoo told Mashable that a redesign is in the works for the Yahoo Finance website, but doesn't have a set release date. "The launch timing of our Yahoo Finance web experience has been delayed," the rep said.

Sources first told Mashable in July that Yahoo was at work on a major revamp of the Yahoo Finance app as part of a renewed focus on mobile.

Under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo has acquired more than 20 startups largely to bring on their mobile engineering talent, presumably with hopes of boosting user numbers and engagement, which in turn may pave the way for greater mobile advertising revenues.

Proximity Alert

Proximity Alert

You can also register an Intent which allows to define a proximity alert, this alert will be triggered if the device enters a area given by a longitude, latitude and radius (proximity alert).

Selecting LocationProvider via Criteria

Selecting LocationProvider via Criteria

For a flexible selection of the best location provider use a Criteria object, in which you can define how the provider should be selected.

You can register a LocationListener object with the LocationManager class to receive periodic updates about the geoposition.

Source View

Source View

Drill down through data points, sort to find the most CPU-consuming methods, and view the code directly within the Instruments UI to pinpoint the problem.

Low-Overhead Sampling

Without launching the Instruments application it is possible to begin sampling performance data with a simple keypress, using very low overhead to collect high-fidelity information.

Custom Instruments

Create your own Instruments using DTrace and the Instruments custom builder.

Drill Down

Drill Down

Inspect data spikes on the graph to see what code is executing at the time, then easily jump into Xcode to fix the problem.

Instrument Library

Choose any of the bundled instruments in the library from low-level CPU, network, or file activity, to advanced graphics and user-event instruments.

Zombie Detection

Hard-to-find application errors and crashes can be trapped within Instruments when an application tries to access memory no longer available.

Visual Comparison

Visual Comparison

As data is recorded and displayed over time it is easy to see relationships, both between different types of collected data, or the same data collected over multiple runs.

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