James Brumley

Smartphone subsidies are becoming a thing of the past now that Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) has announced that it will stop offering two-year contracts. The shift comes after T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE: TMUS) successfully marketed its own contract-free service, but competition is not the only source of the...

Shares of video-ringtone app company Vringo (NASDAQ: VRNG) jumped over 24 percent on Monday following reports that the company had settled part of a lawsuit with global web service AOL (NYSE: AOL). Full details surrounding the settlement were not made public, but this makes for the company's first...