Finance, Fantasy Football and Flickr go mobile with a vengeance
Posted September 8th, 2009 at 9:27 am by Dave Ko, Yahoo! Mobile
9 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News
Can you remember when a mobile phone was just used for making calls? Did you ever think that you would have access to the Internet, photos, video, music, and more in something size of a deck of cards? For technology companies, advances in mobile have created playgrounds for building some pretty amazing consumer experiences – the kind that make you forget you’re not sitting in front of your PC.
Today we’re taking a huge step in bringing more of Yahoo!’s most popular properties and services to mobile devices around the world. You can now have Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Fantasy Football and Flickr, with much of the same interactivity as on the PC, on your iPhone or iPod touch (via the App Store) and select BlackBerry models (Bold, Tour, and 8900 series). It’s all part of our effort to help you stay connected.
The new Yahoo! Finance app, available on the iPhone or iPod touch and compatible BlackBerry models, helps you stay on top of the market, your portfolio, and the latest news, research, and analysis with powerful interactivity. The app lets you:
- Follow the broad market indices or a specific company
- Access the top financial news stories
- Follow your personalized portfolio from Yahoo! Finance
- Drill down into specific company information (news, chart, financial metrics)
- Get currency conversions on the go
- Watch streaming video from Tech Ticker
The new app is available in English for the U.S. and Canada and we expect to support more languages and countries in the near future, so stay tuned!
The new Fantasy Football app, available on the iPhone or iPod touch and compatible BlackBerry models, ensures that when you’re away from your computer or TV, you’ll still be in the know when your team puts points on the board. You’ll have up-to-the-minute access to rosters, players, live scores via Stat Tracker, and the latest expert analysis and news. The new app lets you:
- Edit your bench (add and drop) directly from your phone
- View matchups, standings, player and team stats, etc.
- Get live scoring just like on the PC
- Get news and expert advice just like you’re used to on the PC
This app is available in English for the U.S. and Canada – those football-loving nations.
Flickr fans will be amazed by the functionality in their new Flickr iPhone/iPod touch app – starting with the Ken Burns-effect on famed Flickr images when you first launch it. In addition to being able to share and discover photos and videos, you can also take advantage of location-based information when uploading new stuff. The new app lets you:
- Easily upload and tag photos and video while on the go
- Automatically geo-tag before you upload (opt-in required)
- Add and view photos and videos by tags & sets
- Share photos with friends via email
- Search photos and videos from the Flickr community all over the world by subject, people, or places
- See your contacts’ recent photos and activity
- Make comments and mark photos as favorites
The new Flickr app is available in English, French and traditional Chinese for the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Hong Kong, and Singapore – with more to come.
And don’t despair if you don’t have an iPhone/iPod touch or one of the compatible BlackBerry devices. You can always access these three popular services from the mobile web – just head to Flickr (http://m.flickr.com), Yahoo! Finance (http://m.yahoo.com/finance), and Fantasy Sports (http://m.yahoo.com/fantasy). And be sure to visit the new Yahoo! Mobile Homepage (http://m.yahoo.com) and personalize it with your favorite content and services from across the Internet.
Keep an eye out for additional mobile offerings across a lot more devices as we continue to bring the best of Yahoo! to mobile users around the world.
David Ko
SVP, Yahoo! Mobile
Tagged: apps, BlackBerry, Flickr, iphone, news, yahoo! fantasy sports, yahoo! finance, yahoo! mobile
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HR | September 9th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Any chance of the fantasy football app making it to Android before this NFL season ends?
I’d love to have this.
Mark Douglass | September 10th, 2009 at 12:28 am
What is the reasoning behind the Flickr app not being available in Germany (& tons of other countries).
As a paying Flickr customer I feel a little stiffed.
gag | September 10th, 2009 at 10:15 am
i liked the flickr iphone app it seems cool but i don’t have a phone of that sort to try it out.
also mostly people use their mobile to talk, why are you not providing products that about talking. Lot of people in countries like India still do a lot of talking, not everybody has a smart phone.
also how do you intend to make money of these products, free products without value or vision will eventually lead to the failure of a product.
mobile is big, i mean till you have a dedicated server, gps and dedicated voice only for your ears out of thin air! anyway is yahoo! working on ways to monetize its mobile products
their has to be a team which should think about innovations in monetization, you cant keep doing the ad thingy
school, college kids & interns always are packed with great ideas, reach out to them via facebook, twitter, bebo, orkut & more.
companies will have to evolve and work with the public, the product assembly line has to go inside, outside and all around
companies will have to stop making products and start helping people create products, companies which will not learn to do this will cease to exist and this i promise
companies will have outsourced entrepreneurs and these entrepreneurs will work with multiple companies while creating a single product and all the companies will work out the finances, deal making will get very innovative and competitive very soon.
i dont know who will be more busy n stressed in the future, a developer, mba or a lawyer but i recommend a big company like yahoo! should sure start a search for a good doctor (Psychologist, physician, etc.,)for all the three above. Hey i am serious about the doctor part.
lastly thank you all at yahoo! for all the cool stuff you code, its always a pleasure to yahoo!
Ali | September 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Why isn’t Yahoo! Finance iPhone app available in the UK? I invest in the US mrkt so it is disappointing to see that the app is not available here.
Tony | September 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
The Finance app currently does not run on BB Curve. Hopefully there will be an updated version soon which would support BB Curve. -Thanks.
Jim Hu | September 24th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hi Tony,
The Yahoo! Finance app is not available for the Curve. BlackBerry devices that feature the Finance app include the Bold, Tour and 8900 series. Check out http:m.yahoo.com/finance for more details. Thanks for writing.
Cheap BlackBerry | October 6th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
It wasnt even available on my 8830. it is truly a nice phone but missing the cool video playback from hulu and youtube
fallen earth chips | November 13th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I like to use Flickr to share pictures with family.
Pokjat Personal Finance | November 13th, 2009 at 5:13 am
I got a new Yahoo! Finance app on my blackberry.Anyway is it possible for more languages and countries in the near future?It might get handy..thanks
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