Wow! The Bloomberg app was just updated today and the layout is now similar to the display you would see on cable TV. I watch Bloomberg all throughout the day as I am working (I am a professional stock trader) and I initially started using it because it was included with my Amazon Prime subscription. It initially took some getting comfortable using it because it did not look like the cable version (although I dropped cable over 15 years ago) of Bloomberg TV but that has now been updated. It is on daily in my office and I think it is the BEST news channel available (and besides, it is FREE with Prime). If you consume business news and have not tried the Bloomberg app on Prime recently, I think you will be pleasantly surprised!!
P.S. Also, the graphics appear sharper and it appears to perform much better that it's previous version.
Update (01/29/2021): It appears as though Bloomberg, at least on Amazon Prime, has fixed the intermittent buffering problems it had been experiencing. Whatever they did, the app rarely experiences buffering and freeze ups now!
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What's new in version 3.87.1- • Our first Fire TV app update of 2024!
- • Bug fixes and performance optimizations
Product Details
Release Date: 2013
Date first listed on Amazon: October 15, 2013
Developed By: Bloomberg L.P.
ASIN: B00FT7LGPM
Customer reviews:
12,295 customer ratings
12,295 customer ratings
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Product features
- Livestream of Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Originals
- Bloomberg TV shows such as: Bloomberg: The China Show, Bloomberg Surveillance, Wall Street Week, Bloomberg Technology and more
- Bloomberg Originals shows such as: An Optimist's Guide To The Planet, The Deal, The Circuit with Emily Chang, The Future with Hannah Fry and more
Product description
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News.Key Features Include:
• Livestream of Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Originals
• Bloomberg TV shows such as: Bloomberg Surveillance, Wall Street Week, Bloomberg Technology and more
• Bloomberg Originals shows such as: Getting Warmer with Kal Penn, The Future with Hannah Fry, IDEA Generation and more
We would love to hear from you. For any questions or comments please contact us at: https://www.bloomberg.com/feedback
Terms of Use: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
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Technical details
Size: 29.2MB
Version: 3.87.1
- Access information about networks
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
- This permission can be used on content providers to allow the global search system to access their data
- Open network sockets
- Read from external storage
- Read only access to device state
- Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
- PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
- Write to external storage
- com.android.providers.tv.permission.READ_EPG_DATA
- com.android.providers.tv.permission.WRITE_EPG_DATA
- Receive message via Amazon Device
- com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID
Minimum Operating System: Android 5.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 4 minutes
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Bloomberg fixed Playing VIDEO/ LIVE TV after "Update" v 3.0.9, with delay from Tech Support
Bloomberg does have a wonderful team of journalists! I absolutely love their news coverage for Wall Street and Politics.Finally last month and in time for Thanksgiving 2021 their Customer Service responded to our Technical Support Issue of several months on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Better late than never, but I am glad I was able to follow up via Numerous Listed Channels emails and finally called them and reached a very helpful person who escallated to the correct channel to reach Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers at Bloomberg.Bloomberg Amazon App v3.0.9 didn't work at All, it didn't Play Anything, Any of the Videos or Shows listed on the App. Kept getting an Error Message: "Playback Error" which was reported for over 4 months (via their Website Chat, via several emails monthly, and not sure why none of these emails were even acknowledged until we called). This is all on Fire TV Stick 2nd Generation (OS 5.2.8.4) and Fire TV Version 6330065.1.Bloomberg Amazon App used to freeze often on Amazon Firestick (during commercials) since May 2021 and in Prior year 2020 after an apparent new application releases which were not tested.The TV App itself under Help Section doesn't list an email or a phone number to contact them with technical support issues and their Website Feedback is combersome to find their Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers Contact Email (I eventually found it on the Feedback website, but that Feedback was simply ignored for months as maybe it was not even gone anywhere outside the chat. So we followed up with a phone call which we should have thought of right when first noticing the issue instead of emailing). Sadly, on the Website there is not a live Chat Person to report this to for Amazon Firestick App.But Bloomberg show content and journalism is great!When App does work there is a beautiful sidebar with news and Bottom Headlines Preview (although we wish this preview was a little bit slower). Another wish would be to restore TV Schedule on a separate Tab (as it used to be 2 years ago).My only remaining issue is unlike several years ago, it's Impossible to Zoom in the TV screen and make it full Screen as one can Experience if they would like to focus on the TV content without helpful distructions o:) such as quotes and Indexes, etc (Full Screen Mode was taken away a year or two ago). They should give users an Option as they used to to View Full Screen and switch to Multitasking Minimized Screen with parallel information around. Most old shows which you can see online would not be on their Bloomberg TV+ Amazon Firestick App, but many recent shows and clips are available on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Streaming tickers at the Bottom of the screen were removed as well which is sad, as Fox Business Network (WSJ) still has the running ticker line at the bottom of their shows and they do display TV Videos on the Entire Screen.As an alternative to this App for good World Financial Markets and Wall Street coverage without too much biases we also mainly use CNBC, Yahoo Finance or REUTERS Apps on Amazon.
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Finally last month and in time for Thanksgiving 2021 their Customer Service responded to our Technical Support Issue of several months on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Better late than never, but I am glad I was able to follow up via Numerous Listed Channels emails and finally called them and reached a very helpful person who escallated to the correct channel to reach Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers at Bloomberg.
Bloomberg Amazon App v3.0.9 didn't work at All, it didn't Play Anything, Any of the Videos or Shows listed on the App. Kept getting an Error Message: "Playback Error" which was reported for over 4 months (via their Website Chat, via several emails monthly, and not sure why none of these emails were even acknowledged until we called). This is all on Fire TV Stick 2nd Generation (OS 5.2.8.4) and Fire TV Version 6330065.1.
Bloomberg Amazon App used to freeze often on Amazon Firestick (during commercials) since May 2021 and in Prior year 2020 after an apparent new application releases which were not tested.
The TV App itself under Help Section doesn't list an email or a phone number to contact them with technical support issues and their Website Feedback is combersome to find their Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers Contact Email (I eventually found it on the Feedback website, but that Feedback was simply ignored for months as maybe it was not even gone anywhere outside the chat. So we followed up with a phone call which we should have thought of right when first noticing the issue instead of emailing). Sadly, on the Website there is not a live Chat Person to report this to for Amazon Firestick App.
But Bloomberg show content and journalism is great!
When App does work there is a beautiful sidebar with news and Bottom Headlines Preview (although we wish this preview was a little bit slower). Another wish would be to restore TV Schedule on a separate Tab (as it used to be 2 years ago).
My only remaining issue is unlike several years ago, it's Impossible to Zoom in the TV screen and make it full Screen as one can Experience if they would like to focus on the TV content without helpful distructions o:) such as quotes and Indexes, etc (Full Screen Mode was taken away a year or two ago). They should give users an Option as they used to to View Full Screen and switch to Multitasking Minimized Screen with parallel information around. Most old shows which you can see online would not be on their Bloomberg TV+ Amazon Firestick App, but many recent shows and clips are available on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Streaming tickers at the Bottom of the screen were removed as well which is sad, as Fox Business Network (WSJ) still has the running ticker line at the bottom of their shows and they do display TV Videos on the Entire Screen.
As an alternative to this App for good World Financial Markets and Wall Street coverage without too much biases we also mainly use CNBC, Yahoo Finance or REUTERS Apps on Amazon.
Bloomberg fixed Playing VIDEO/ LIVE TV after "Update" v 3.0.9, with delay from Tech Support
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2020
Bloomberg does have a wonderful team of journalists! I absolutely love their news coverage for Wall Street and Politics.Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2020
Finally last month and in time for Thanksgiving 2021 their Customer Service responded to our Technical Support Issue of several months on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Better late than never, but I am glad I was able to follow up via Numerous Listed Channels emails and finally called them and reached a very helpful person who escallated to the correct channel to reach Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers at Bloomberg.
Bloomberg Amazon App v3.0.9 didn't work at All, it didn't Play Anything, Any of the Videos or Shows listed on the App. Kept getting an Error Message: "Playback Error" which was reported for over 4 months (via their Website Chat, via several emails monthly, and not sure why none of these emails were even acknowledged until we called). This is all on Fire TV Stick 2nd Generation (OS 5.2.8.4) and Fire TV Version 6330065.1.
Bloomberg Amazon App used to freeze often on Amazon Firestick (during commercials) since May 2021 and in Prior year 2020 after an apparent new application releases which were not tested.
The TV App itself under Help Section doesn't list an email or a phone number to contact them with technical support issues and their Website Feedback is combersome to find their Amazon Prime Firestick App Developers Contact Email (I eventually found it on the Feedback website, but that Feedback was simply ignored for months as maybe it was not even gone anywhere outside the chat. So we followed up with a phone call which we should have thought of right when first noticing the issue instead of emailing). Sadly, on the Website there is not a live Chat Person to report this to for Amazon Firestick App.
But Bloomberg show content and journalism is great!
When App does work there is a beautiful sidebar with news and Bottom Headlines Preview (although we wish this preview was a little bit slower). Another wish would be to restore TV Schedule on a separate Tab (as it used to be 2 years ago).
My only remaining issue is unlike several years ago, it's Impossible to Zoom in the TV screen and make it full Screen as one can Experience if they would like to focus on the TV content without helpful distructions o:) such as quotes and Indexes, etc (Full Screen Mode was taken away a year or two ago). They should give users an Option as they used to to View Full Screen and switch to Multitasking Minimized Screen with parallel information around. Most old shows which you can see online would not be on their Bloomberg TV+ Amazon Firestick App, but many recent shows and clips are available on Amazon Prime Firestick App. Streaming tickers at the Bottom of the screen were removed as well which is sad, as Fox Business Network (WSJ) still has the running ticker line at the bottom of their shows and they do display TV Videos on the Entire Screen.
As an alternative to this App for good World Financial Markets and Wall Street coverage without too much biases we also mainly use CNBC, Yahoo Finance or REUTERS Apps on Amazon.
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Genialer Sender, zu empfehlen jedem, der eine realistische Darstellung der USA schätzt.
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