If you have a smartphone (and many people now do), you probably have several apps on it for different purposes. If you are also deeply entrenched in business and business politics, you want to keep ahead of everything in the business world, whether it be the stock market or your competitors' successes. Business news is vital to your daily operations, and as such, you should have some business apps on your phone that give you just that. Here are some of the best business news apps (one of which is already present on your phone when you bought it!).

The App Simply Called "Stocks"

On some smart phones, there is a hidden pull-down screen app called "stocks." If you do not know about it or have never accidentally discovered it, go check it out.  This app only lists some of the major players of DOW and NASDAQ, but it still gives you a pretty good idea of how the market is doing today and how it has done over the past week.

Newspaper Subscription Apps

Newspapers have gone digital. If you love the business news from USA Today or The New York Times, you can subscribe to their apps and get all of your important business news on your phone. The advantage to this is that you also get immediate, real-time updates to business news as they break, before the traditional paper readers hear about it or read it in the evening news. That is pure gold, right there.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Apps for mergers and acquisitions news are usually tied to either newspaper apps, or celebrity news magazines. Apps focused specifically on mergers are limited and limiting, since this information can only be garnered by insiders or news reporters, but apps of this kind operated as separate entities of news reports are available if you know how to search your app store for them.

More in-Depth Investment Apps

If you want the FULL ticker-tape stock market on your phone, there are apps for that as well. If the news you want is investment news of a different sort, there are apps that will show you which companies to invest in and which investment options are doing poorly or doing very well. Make sure you research the apps before you purchase them, because the most expensive ones may not be refundable if you do not like them.

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