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Fidelity Investments Just Might Be The Best Stock Market App For WP8

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Fidelity Investments is among the biggest names in the market when it comes to financial services. A lot of big players in the stock exchange rely on data acquired from Fidelity to conduct their businesses and make investments. You can stay in touch with your Fidelity Investments account using its web version of course, but it is always nice to get on-the-go access for any service in form of dedicated mobile apps. If you work in the finance indistry and own a Windows Phone, the service’s WP8 app can prove to be an asset. It supports account login but even if you are not a registered Fidelity Investments user, you can use the app to keep an eye on the stock market, read latest news stories related to companies of your interest, and get detailed exchange stats for any particular stock. Read More

Official Reuters News App For iPhone & iPad Impresses With A Great UI

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Reuters has been among the world's leading news agencies for quite a long time. It is not just an important name for the business and media sector, but is often the first to break many important news stories as well. Having said that, it is impossible for users to always be in front of their TV screens or on a news service’s website to catch the latest happenings from around the world. That is where news apps become really important. Reuters has had a presence on iOS for quite a while, and the organization has just launched a new official app for iPhone and iPad. The app has a beautiful interface that you can navigate using easy gestures. Besides keeping you up-to-date with the latest news from around the world, he app also lets you create a custom watchlist for the stock market. Read More

Follow Latest Business News With The Economist App For Windows 8

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Today's world is a global village and it is quite common for something happening in one part of the world directly or indirectly effecting the business activity in another region. If you work in a position where you have to make business decisions, staying up-to-date with the important relevent happenings the world over can be of utmost importance. There are many news sources and magazines such as BBC, Reuters, Newsweek, Time etc., that allow you to keep a keen eye on local as well as global events and when it comes to the field of business and economics, The Economist is one of the first sources that come to mind. It has made its name by providing breaking news and insightful expert opinions on topics ranging from politics, economics and business to science and technology. Recently, the official Windows 8 app for The Economist has been released that allows you to browse through select highlights and columns from the latest and past issues of the weekly in a slick, Modern UI interface. You can read article in different font sizes, listen to an audio stream of the text, and bookmark your favorite articles to read them later. If you are a subscriber, you can also access complete issues and even download them to your device for offline reading. Read More

Official Bloomberg App Available For Nokia Windows Phone

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There can be no doubting the fact that Bloomberg is among the most popular news sources for people who are interested in financial affairs and the stock market. The network’s TV channel is followed by a wide array of people, and other services from Bloomberg are quite well-known as well. Despite Bloomberg’s presence in almost all major mediums, it’s not easy staying in touch with your business interests on the go. While there are some pretty decent financial management apps available in the Windows Phone Store, most people like to have a familiar name in the app list of their WP7. If you are the kind of person who is a fan of apps from popular services, having a Nokia Lumia device is a pretty good option, as many official apps are Lumia-exclusive, or at least arrive for Nokia Windows Phone devices before other phones. The Bloomberg app has become the latest addition in the Nokia Store, and offers just about everything you will ever need to manage your financial affairs and staying apprised of all the latest news related to the stock market. You can even configure your portfolio in the app, so that Bloomberg can keep you informed of your own stock’s current progress. Read More

Follow The Stock Market & Your Investments With Official E*TRADE App For Windows Phone

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Blackberry and even iPhones are usually termed as devices tailor-made for business people. While both these platforms have the advantage of having been around for quite a while, Windows Phone is catching up fast in terms of apps that deal with financial management. A lot of really good business and finance apps are already available in the Windows Phone Store, with PayPal among the recent big names to arrive on the Marketplace. As the release of Windows Phone 8 draws closer, more and more big names are coming up with their Windows Phone clients. The latest to join the list is E*TRADE, and thanks to their newly released WP7 app, users can keep track of their own shares and investments, along side the option to monitor all the latest activities in the stock market of their interest. The app can be used as your primary source for business news, and lets you manage your E*TRADE account, too. Read More

Invoicera: Online Billing, Invoicing & Time-Tracking Made Easy [Web]

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If you’re a project or product manager of a start-up or a large scale firm, you would definitely value the importance of invoicing and billing. These records are critical for an organization, especially software development houses that rely on online payment receipts accrued to paid software downloads. Invoicera is an online, user-friendly web app that supports 21 payment gateways, coupled with the option to select from 11 different languages. Integrated with Google Apps, it allows you to manage Gmail, Google Docs and the like from a single interface. You can add clients, products and unlimited invoices, automatically receiving payments in a transparent manner using client-specific exchange rates. Creating professional invoices from a wide range of templates library and receiving payments (with over 120 currencies supported) could never have been simpler. Read More

UnkleBill: Beginner-Friendly Double Entry Accounting Utility

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Money plays an important role in our life, but even a more important part is how we manage it. Keep spending your dough injudiciously, and sooner or later, you might end up going bankrupt. If you find it difficult to keep an eye on where your money is going and what’s the cause of your ever growing list of expenses, then either you need to hire an accountant who would monitor your finances, or you may use your own brain and some basic accounting knowledge to keep the matters in your own hands. You can also check various financial software solutions that are specifically designed to help you out in all things related to money. One such application is UnkleBill. Although the name may sound a little weird, UnkleBill is an open source accounting tool that handles all your bills and is based on double entry accounting system, an accounting standard in which a transaction is recorded in more than one accounts, i.e., debit in one account and credit to the other. It lets you know of your cash inflows and outflows, and does pretty much everything on its own, leaving you with less than half the effort. It can also generate monthly PDF reports, so the next time, you may spend your money more wisely. It can be used by more than one users at the same time, as it houses a separate, password protected profile for each. Read More

Markets & Me: Keep An Eye On The Stock Market & Manage Your Shares [WP7]

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Maybe there is no specific reason for the phenomenon, but the finance-related apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace are a class of their own, especially with respect to quality. The likes of WSJ Live (review) and IntelliStocks (review) have already been covered by us, but Markets & Me is a Mango app that takes comprehensiveness to the next level. The app serves the dual purpose of keeping its users apprised of the latest situation in the stock market (just about all major markets are supported), and letting them manage their own portfolio(s). You don’t need separate news and financial management apps any more; if anything is related to the stock exchange, Markets & Me has got you covered. Read on to learn more about this awesomely through app for WP7 devices. Read More

My Cashflow For iPhone Predicts Your Future Bank Balance To Help You Clear Debts

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With plastic money’s rise to popularity, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of all the money you owe to different banks, organizations and other people. There is always that looming threat of suddenly finding out that there’s not enough money left in your bank account to pay all your bills. This is where the iPhone app My Cashflow can help you. Unlike other financial management apps for iOS, My Cashflow is fairly simple and doesn’t require its users to log all their bank account details before providing some meaningful stats. You just have to feed your recurring expenses in the app, store your current balance, and you are good to go. My Cashflow generates a graphical representation of the predicted state of your bank account, and indicates the exact date when your funds are expected to run out if things stay the same. Read More

WSJ Live: Watch Video News From The Business World On Your WP7

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The Wall Street Journal is one of the most important and popular news source of the world. No business-related news can possibly be big enough if it isn’t in Wall Street Journal. With the advent of technology, the financial tabloid had entered the cyber age as well. Now many people prefer watching the video content available via Wall Street Journal’s website and TV channel, instead of reading whole articles. A video can certainly enlighten you more on any topic as compared to a written story, and that’s why WSJ Live can prove to be the perfect app for all Windows Phone 7 users who are even remotely interested in financial matters and the stock market. The app presents users with news stories, but only as videos. You can also use WSJ Live to watch some of the most popular Wall Street Journal programs, right on your Mango phone’s screen! Read More

Manager Portable: Comprehensive Solution To Manage Financial Statements

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From time to time, we at AddictiveTips keep bringing various financial management software solutions for our readers, such as Personal Finances, Cretica Invoice and EWeb Balance. Manger Portable is yet another new financial management application, which is probably the most comprehensive financial management utility. It is a browser-based tool and is available both as a installer and portable version. The program actually runs on local web server and is packed with a wide variety of features. Some of the highlighted features include ability to import bank statements, create payment and receipts, support of GST, VAT and sales tax, create and store payables and receivables, Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Ledger records, automated accounts creation during data-entry, international support for date, time and currency etc. The application offers an easy-to-use and attractive interface, and supports all widely used web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari etc. Read on for an in-depth review. Read More

Official Android & iOS App Of Online Investment Service Zecco Released

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We have previously reviewed quite a few Android and iOS apps that present the users with the latest and up-to-date financial reports and stock market values/analyses, but hardly anyone comes closer to Zecco Mobile in terms of aesthetics as well as features. Laced with plenty of highly informative and neatly presented financial news, reports, graphs, charts, timeframe-based comparative analyses, real-time streaming quotes, Bulls & Bears information, Calls & Puts values, movers & shakers of the world’s top stock markets, personal trading accounts and live stock market statistics pertaining to user-specific quotes, the official mobile client of one of the world’s renowned online investment and trading services, Zecco, vows to be your hub for all the latest finance-related content. Read More

Spending Viewer: Track Expenses, Manage Monthly Budget & Multiple Accounts

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Managing your personal finances these days is not exactly a walk in the park, as you find yourself all beat up trying to remember a transaction you may or may not have made yet. There’s simply too much to go around for us to keep track of, without either your bank doing the job for you, or you writing it all down. We have covered plenty of personal finance managers earlier, with Personal Finances Pro being the latest. However, as brilliant as the application is, it sets you back a hefty $19.74. This is where Spending Viewer comes in, with a plethora of features, all for free. Well, not entirely, as the free version lets you manage up to two accounts only. Purchase the app for $6, and you can track multiple accounts, as well as free lifetime upgrades. Read More

[Giveaway] Personal Finances: Complete Financial Manager To Maintain Your Budget

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Managing personal finances can be a tedious task if done manually. Recording everything on a piece of paper and then adding everything up at the end of the month, takes a lot of time and effort, not to mention the situations when you forget to write something down or lose the receipts or the paper where you had written down your expenses and income. Instead of manually doing it, you can keep track of your finances using Personal Finances. It is a portable application for Windows that allows you to easily manage personal income and expenses. The software helps you understand where your money is going and lets you determine the areas where you are spending the most amount of your income. It offers a wide range of functionality, and is suitable to be used by both beginners and professionals alike. Keep reading to find out more about Personal Finances. Read More

s-peek Offers Business-Oriented Reports, Graphs & Statistics [Android]

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Whether you’re an investor, tycoon or someone interested in getting a financial overview of various globally acclaimed businesses, chances are that you might have to sift through a plethora of news sources on daily basis to get your dose of the latest happening from the world of finance. Well, if you own an Android device, then you might be quite pleased to learn about the release of s-peek, a highly informative and neatly designed Android app that brings the latest reports, statistical analyses (with comparison charts and graphs), trending info, credit limit rating, user opinions and comprehensive up-to-date data pertaining to some of the leading European companies of the world. Using the app, you can browse the list of featured companies, or manually search for your required firm, and explore all the data relevant to each through a rich intuitive interface. Read More

Cashculator: Income/Expense Manager For Planning Monthly Finances [Mac]

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Money management is one of those things that everyone should do, but it’s also what makes a person bury their head in the ground in hopes that things will just work themselves out and nothing bad will happen. While optimism will probably help you lead a healthier and longer life, when it comes to money, you should put your ‘realist’ hat on and start crunching a few numbers. Cashculator Free, as the name signifies is a free Mac app that helps you record your source of income and your expenses on a monthly basis. It isn’t exactly what you’d use to map out your life’s financial path, but if you you have no idea where your expenses are going, and not sure just  how much money you are making, this is a great way to reconcile your finances. Read More

CashBook: Password Protected Personal Expense Manager For Mac

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CashBook is a free Mac app that helps you manage your daily expenses; it isn’t one of those super apps that will tell which stocks to invest in, and when it is a good time to invest in a house or buy a new car. The app is simply a good way to manage finances if you aren’t very good at keeping track of money, and don’t want anything overly complicated. The app lets you manage money in different accounts, letting you add as many accounts and expense heads as you like, and simply putting down expenditures and deposits as they happen under one of the available categories. Read More

Official CNNMoney App For Android Phones Lands In The Market

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If you’re looking to get updated news on the latest happenings in the world of business, trade, technology, investment, economy or literally anything related to finance in order to devise timely strategic plans for your own business or want to keep a close tab on the top stock markets of the world, look no further than the official CNNMoney client for Android phones. The app has been available for iOS users for quite a while, and now has recently been released to the Android Market. Apart from keeping you apprised of the latest news from almost every business-related topic, each supplemented by multimedia (images and/or videos), the app provides you with up-to-the-minute data from the domains of stock market, bonds as well as the top currencies/commodities of the world. Read More

Manage All Your Personal Finances From Your iPad With Mint.Com App

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There are many iOS apps that can help you keep track of all your financial affairs. Mint.com has been a trusted source for expense management since 2008. It is usually a tough decision to give your account details and other such personal data to a third party app, but Mint.com is good at handling banking data, as their years in the business show. Using the new iPad app, you can know pretty much everything about your financial matters at a glance. Mint supports a lot of banks and account types, meaning that users won't have to enter too much data manually, as the app will come up with auto-suggestions to facilitate the logging of your finances. Read on to find out how the app helps you stay abreast with the status of your money. Read More