The business oriented Forbes.com has finally entered the smartphone arena by launching the Forbes.com application for the Palm webOS platform. The app is now available in the Palm App Catalog on the Palm Pre handset.
This innovative app presents the latest Forbes.com news, analysis and opinion along with stock market updates to Palm Pre devices. Users can access the latest Forbes.com content, including news from the home page and the site’s editorial channels featuring markets, business, personal finance, entrepreneurs, technology, Forbes life, opinions and leadership. It also includes news from the CMO Network, Intelligent Investing and ForbesWoman sections.
“Professionals are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to keep them up-to-date with business and financial news, and the Palm Pre phone’s capabilities make it an excellent tool for the mobile executive and entrepreneur. The Forbes.com app for Palm webOS is the first application to deliver deep business content for this platform, and we expect it to solve a core business need,” commented Jeff Bauer, Product and Creative Director, Forbes.
The app features a customizable ‘My Stocks’ section via which users can follow stocks and indexes. Further, users can download articles to read when offline by employing the ‘prepare for offline’ functionality. The Palm Pre app integrates e-mail and social sharing services such as Facebook, Yahoo! Buzz, Digg, and Redditt.
The new Forbes.com app is developed by BlueSwitch and can be downloaded from the Palm App Catalog.