Online investment service Scottrade lets you buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other financial products or research investments without the help of a stock broker. Now the company also offers an Android app that lets you do all of that on the go. The free Scottrade app for Android joins the company’s apps for iPhone and BlackBerry. Even without a Scottrade account you can use… Read more »

If you’re a BlackBerry user that needs constant updates on your stock portfolio, BerryBlowApps has developed an app for you: Stocks+. Stocks+ is different than other finance-based apps for BlackBerry, as it comes with the ability to display your stocks on your home screen. As the app updates in the background, the stock information on your wallpaper changes, so you always have up-to-date information right in front… Read more »

Online investment firm E*Trade recently launched an Android app to go with the company’s iOS and BlackBerry apps. I wanted to check it out, but I don’t actually use E*Trade to manage my investments. I use Scottrade, which doesn’t offer mobile apps (instead relying on a mobile web site). But while that means I can’t buy and sell stocks using a mobile app, it doesn’t… Read more »

Yahoo has launched a mobile Yahoo Finance app for Google Android. Like similar apps from Google, Aol, and Bloomberg, the Yahoo Finance app lets you view near real-time stock quotes and news as well as manage your portfolio. You can also create customized stock watch lists and view videos from the Yahoo Finance Tech Ticker site — although the streaming video quality was pretty awful… Read more »

Bloomberg has launched an Android app for tracking stock quotes, keeping up on business news, and managing stock portfolios. You can filter the news by region, industry, or popularity. There’s also a Home Screen widget that you can use to see either a snapshot of your stock portfolio or the latest business news. There’s a Markets tab that lets you see the updates to equity… Read more »

Google Finance is a nifty web-based set of tools for tracing stock prices, researching companies, reading business news, or keeping up to date on your personal portfolio. Unfortunately, the mobile version of the web site left a bit to be desired. This week Google revamped the mobile version of Google Finance so that it’s almost as good as the desktop version. No when you visit… Read more »

AOL has launched two new apps for Android. The first is simply called AOL, and it’s basically a portal to some of AOL’s mobile web sites as well as download links for other AOL apps including the mobile Engadget app and the AOL Lifestream app which is actually a pretty decent tool for keeping track of Facebook, Twitter, and other social network streams. The News… Read more »