The News Ticker provides great features and many associated benefits: track any oil and gas service company, any natural gas utility company, track news on specific shale plays, or general oil & gas news, podcasts, videos, or blogs. It also displays energy quotes for Brent Crude Oil and Natural Gas (20 min delay). Users can add an unlimited number of feeds and import or export using OPML, the standard news feed backup format. Users can instantly add new feeds using the RSS IE and Firefox feed auto-discovery add-on. Users can play/pause and forward/reverse feed navigation and position Ticker by Stick to Top, Stick to Bottom, Always on Top, Floating.

There is now no need to go to respective web-sites to view news since it is delivered to your desktop as updates are available. Users can set preferences like individual or group feed refresh, alert options, and feed item expiration. Users can search favorite search Google or oil & gas news sites.