iPhone Apps

Just as useful as apps for investors, these personal finance tools focus on helping you save more, earn more and spend more efficiently.

The early numbers are in, and they're impressive: Apple has sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S handsets during its first three days on the market. And buying a 4S could actually be a smart money move. Unlike past iPhones, the 4S isn't just another well-designed handset -- this one promises tangible productivity gains that could save some serious moola.

You may already be familiar with many of the independent retailers in your home town, but how do you find mom-and-pop shops when you're traveling? The 3/50 Project's new iPhone app might help. It links users to its directory of small businesses, so visitors can support the local economy.

You already know your iPhone can check email, take photos, watch movies, play music, and oh yeah, make phone calls. But did you know it can also deposit checks, calculate the correct tip in a French cafe, and file your taxes? Here are six essential apps for the committed personal financier.

You paid a lot for your iPhone, so why not use it to earn back some of that dough? Here are seven apps -- all free -- that can save you hundreds of dollars a year, on gas, groceries, and goods sold online. We took them for a test drive and slashed our shopping tab by nearly $70.

Making grocery lists and sticking to them saves money and guards against impulse buys, except, of course, when you forget them at home, which can happen to the best of us. Okay, namely, me. On such an occasion, one might wander the aisles trying to visualize the list, or perhaps engage in...

Expedia is finally going mobile. The travel website has agreed to buy Mobiata, maker of best-selling app TravelTrack.

As if you needed another reason to get an iPhone, Pushpins is releasing an iPhone app today that will let you safely put the scissors away and spend your Sundays playing outside instead of sitting indoors clipping coupons. The free app lets shoppers at nine brands of grocery stores -- Safeway,...

Among today's top online stories for investors: Why holiday spending will surprise; two stocks hotter than AAPL; and are insiders trying to tell us something with all this selling?

Israel's domestic security chief warned that civilian Internet applications including Google Earth (GOOG) and iPhone apps, offer militant groups access to intelligence that rivals that available to government spies. Yuval Diskin, director of Shin Bet, said cyber technologies are a rising...