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moguls
Mark Cuban's High Definition Dreams Crushed By Time Warner
Mark Cuban concedes his HDNet has been permanently kicked off Time Warner Cable Systems nationwide. It's a rough time for the mouthy internet entrepreneur. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Cutting Makes You Sexy: Hey. Have you guys seen Role Models? You know that guy from Role Models who plays Oggie's dad? Mark Cuban reminds... 1 Responses | Other threads
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failure
Yahoo Video: The $6 Billion Black Hole Implodes
A source at Google tells us YouTube has seen a rush of résumés from engineers at Yahoo's rival video site, after a wave of layoffs last week that devastated the team. Is Yahoo Video done? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by NonaRareware: What the hell has Carol Bartz accomplished? So far nothing as far as I can see, she makes Yang look... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Shut Up, Twitter
Mouthy Billionaire Mark Cuban Fined for Using Twitter
The NBA has fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the dotcom billionaire, $25,000 for slagging referees on Twitter Friday. His Twittered response: The league has found a way for Twitter to make money.
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By Owen ThomasComment by pacocornholio: He's getting 10 times the fine in free publicity. What's the ref getting? 3 Responses | Other threads
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rants
South By Southwest Is a Pointless Party
Why does the tech world get a throwdown in Austin when the banks have had to cancel their bashes? The news out of South By Southwest shows that Web hipsters are every bit as bankrupt. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lizawithazee: Heh, you can tell they're from outta town when they drink Lone Star. 12 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Mark Cuban's overclocked lifestyle — the 60-second version
"My blog, because the press never gets it right." This 2006 Hewlett Packard ad featuring Dallas Mavs owner and dotcom bazillionaire Mark Cuban shows why it'll be fun to watch him fight with the SEC over a chump-change $750,000 windfall from what the lawmen claim is insider trading. Cuban is a crazy super-multitasker who gets 1,000 emails a day, yet still had time to do Dancing with the Stars. Halfway through this ad, he checks off The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the Enron scandal that he coproduced. My guess on this week's insider trading charge against him? He did it, not thinking through the risks. But he's going to make the SEC look like a bunch of dolts on the Internet. Pass the popcorn!
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By Paul BoutinComment by Kebie: He uses a MacBook Air though, he has several blog posts about switching to MacBooks, and how great he thinks... more » | Other threads
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insider trading
Mark Cuban fights back
Dallas Mavericks owner and dotcom jillionaire Mark Cuban has posted an SEC P2 filing to his personal blog. Cuban can run a team, but he's a bit sloppy trying to put the paperwork in context. In short: The SEC has accused Cuban of ordering the sale of his shares in Mamma.com in 2004, based on inside info, to avoid a $750,000 loss. Here's what Cuban is trying to say with his post: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by D14BLO: Paul, you called Cuban sloppy, then made two errors relaying rather vital information one sentence later: "The SEC has... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Blog maverick charged with insider trading
The SEC has filed charges against Dallas Mavericks owner and dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban. The Wall Street Journal, which disgraced Cuban with a stipple portrait this morning, sums up the paperwork thusly: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by nobuggin: When you have over a billion, why risk an insider trading charge over $750k? He should have just sucked... 2 Responses | Other threads
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quotable
Mark Cuban on Jerry Yang: "Too nice"
Of all the people corporate raider Carl Icahn nominated for Yahoo's board, Mark Cuban, the loudmouthed Internet entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner is the guy we wished had made it. If only for the boardroom theatrics with milquetoast Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang. Take Cuban's latest comments to Bloomberg: "Jerry's too nice a guy. He cares too much. They've got a lot of avenues they could take but all of them depend on being a lot meaner and a lot more aggressive and that's just not their style." Cuban should know: He took Yang for $6 billion during the dotcom bubble by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo, then made sure to collar his shares so they kept their value while Yang's fortune plunged. Never heard of Broadcast.com? Exactly Cuban's point.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Arnaud H: @dotbombing: 99.9%? Let me reassure you: the best broadcast.com people made it to Yahoo! after the acquisition... and most of... 1 Responses | Other threads
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party report
Valleywag spy goes to TechCrunch50 so you don't have to
A Valleywag spy attended the second day of TechCrunch50 and then followed the crowd to a dinner, a party and an after party. He learned that blondes love Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis likes to drink, and flack turned TechCrunch blogger Calley Nye knows how to leave with a billionaire. Also, our spy reports that the startup that's getting everyone's attention at the show itself is doing it "through the use of hot and semi naked booth girls." All that and more in his bullet-point recap, below. More »
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Comment by nicolejordan: Dearest anonymous poster (I know who you are, btw) It was nice to have you at my personal friends and family... 2 Responses | Other threads
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major league baseball
Mark Cuban still in the running to buy the Cubs with Yahoo's money
Mark Cuban, the boisterous fellow who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1998 and later bought the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, now wants to own the Chicago Cubs. He's submitted a bid which the the Chicago Tribune reports has made it through a first round of eliminations. Don't get your hopes up, Mark: Former Deadspin editor Will Leitch wrote here in January that he'll never get the Cubs, or any other baseball team, because he's far too nuevo rico for the stuffy Major League Baseball owners' club. More » -
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Icahn files replacement Yahoo board slate with SEC
Corporate raider Carl Icahn made his proxy fight for control of the Yahoo board official today, filing an alternative slate with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The slate includes nine of the ten names Icahn already put forward in a letter to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock. Bob Shaye, former cochairman and co-CEO of the recently defunct New Line Cinema, is no longer on the list. The filing includes a letter from Icahn to Yahoo shareholders in which Icahn urges them to vote for his slate because "Steve" — as in Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer — told him it would grease the wheels for a deal: "If a new board consisting of my nominees were to be elected,Microsoft would be willing to enter into discussions regarding a transaction immediately." Icahn's proposed slate and its members brief bios, below. More »
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Comment by dalejo: @MtkgDiva: Sometimes it is about getting the people you feel best for the job. more » | Other threads
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online video
Mark Cuban: "Hulu is kicking YouTube's ass"
Two years ago, Mark Cuban wrote: "Would Google be crazy to buy YouTube? No doubt about it. Moronic would be an understatement of a lifetime." Since then, Google did buy it — for $1.65 billion — and the site's become so popular its actually the Web's third most popular search engine all on its own. Does that mean Cuban has changed his mind? No, no, it does not. The reason is Hulu, Cuban explains in 802 words, which we've edited down to 100, below. More »
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Comment by SandHillSnobbery: No one would know about getting his ass kicked more than Cuban! The guy has been getting his ass kicked... more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Mark Cuban to Jerry Yang: Thanks for the $5.7 billion — now let's get you fired
Carl Icahn's slate of replacement directors for Yahoo's board is a list of head-scratchers, except for one name. That's Mark Cuban, the guy who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1998 and used the money to buy the Dallas Mavericks. "Talk about biting the hand that feeds," writes VC blogger Fred Wilson. "It's a downright hostile move for Cuban." Actually, hedging his Yahoo shares so he kept his fortune while founder Jerry Yang's cratered in the dotcom bust — that was hostile. Think Yang doesn't remember that? (Photo by eschipul) -
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Carl Icahn's letter to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock has a letter from corporate raider Carl Icahn in his inbox. It's more than 3,000 words long. For a version that Bostock and you can read before Icahn completes his raid, see below. More » -
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Mark Cuban gives "Internet is dead" stump speech in San Antonio
Blogging billionaire Mark Cuban dropped by a meeting of Texas's Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing members in San Antonio yesterday. His message: "The Internet is dead. It's had its time; say goodbye." Cuban went on to explain that high-definition entertainment (like that offered on his HDNet channels) is the present and the future, promising that cable companies can leverage those big, pretty screens for computer-like features. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by douglaskarr: The accidental billionaire strikes again. more » | Other threads
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party report
Kevin Rose's parties bid SXSW goodbye
I've always loved to watch Mark Cuban dance — but Tuesday night I got to see the billionaire booty-shaker up close. The venue: PureVolume Ranch in Austin, Texas. The occasion: The Bigg Digg Shindigg, South by Southwest Interactive's closing party. "You guys always picked the worst photos of me," Cuban said. Mark, as I said at Sunday's panel on gossip, I live to serve. Digg packed PureVolume's dance floor and backyard tents with hundreds of partygoers. Besides Cuban, Moby was there, as were Digg CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose, iLike CEO Ali Partovi, StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp, and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser had just flown in from Florida on a private jet. But for me the most interesting person was newly hired Digger Aubrey Sabala, who put the party together in three days — after Digg had given up on the idea. More » -
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Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner on what makes America great
"What makes this country great is patents and copyrights." Amen, Mikey. God bless America. [Rex Sorgatz] More »
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100-word version
Mark Cuban's rules for startups
Jason Calacanis started a company, Weblogs Inc., and sold it to AOL for $25 million. And he has some ideas on how to build a successful startup. But Mark Cuban started a company, Broadcast.com, and sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. So you'd probably rather read Cuban's "Rules for Startups" post — though not all 707 words of it. Here's a version you have time for: More »
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nerdfight
Mark Cuban: How dare you write about me!
Mark Cuban was happy to sit with Deadspin blogger Will Leitch for an interview to go into GQ. (Deadspin, a sports blog, is owned by Gawker Media, Valleywag's publisher.) But then Cuban saw Leitch's subsequent post on Valleywag. "While I respect the magazine," Cuban writes on his blog, "I am not a fan of the site [Leitch] works for, or of its affiliated site that the blog ran on. I would not have done the interview had I known he would blog about it for this site." Which is too bad, really. We're normally fans of the outspoken, outrageous entrepreneur-blogger. Except when he engages in phony self-righteousness. "Is this ethical?" he asks. More »
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Comment by zenpoet: @Brian Lam: I agree. I don't see what the problem is for a person to comment on his own work... more » | Other threads
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sports
Why no rich techie should ever buy a sports team
Will Leitch is the editor of Deadspin, our sister sports site, and his book God Save The Fan is now available at bookstores everywhere. He makes a cameo appearance here discussing why rich techies should avoid the world of team ownership. More » -
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Mark Cuban has too many friends
Oh no! Mark Cuban has too many friends on Facebook. The graceful Web tycoon just bumped his head against Facebook's 5,000-friend limit. Now Cuban faces the daunting challenge of deciding who among the 100 friend requests a day he should honor. Of course he blogged about it. More »
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Comment by MrMedia: why does cuban ask questions he already knows the answers to? instead he should ask himself why he would want... more » | Other threads
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e-commerce
Mark Cuban's radical new Facebook application
Valleywag's favorite dancer, Mark Cuban, is sashaying to enter the crowded market of Facebook applications with Radical Buy. Radical Buy is not radically different from other venues for selling goods, like eBay or Facebook's own Marketplace. Cuban's approach is distinguished in one significant way: The application introduces commissions to those who display other people's listings and help close sales. By providing even nonsellers with a chance to make money, Radical Buy hopes to get uptake beyond a small audience of Cuban followers. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Carlos: "Cuban's approach is distinguished in one significant way" it was thought of by Cuban, who couldn't hold Zuckerberg's or Omidyar's... more » | Other threads
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file sharing
Mark Cuban profits from file sharing, then calls for ban
With all this talk of Comcast and Canadian Internet service providers throttling file-sharing connections, serial entrepreneur and twinkle-toes Mark Cuban has decided, in big, bold letters, that ISPs should "BLOCK P2P NOW." Although he's not a Comcast subscriber, he supports its crusade to rid the Internet of "P2P freeloaders" because he doesn't want them eating up all his bandwidth. (As does Valleywag. Don't like it? Lay your own cable, pikers. Cuban is a billionaire from selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo, and could actually afford to take our advice.) But we're curious why he's suddenly decided he has a problem with peer-to-peer software. More » -
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I don't feel like dancing
Alas, Mark Cuban. You soft-shoed your way into my heart — but not America's. Cuban has been booted off Dancing with the Stars. His crime? Letting his nerd flag fly, in high-waisted pants and black-framed glasses. Here's a recap of his brief dancing career: -
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By Owen ThomasComment by AceKiller: See ya Poindexter! Yoooooooooooooooou're outa' here! more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by pseudonym: I like how on all of this clips, Cuban looks like he's muttering under his breath along with some kind... more » | Other threads
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geek pride
Mark Cuban's dancing feet sidestep Wii, PlayStation
Despite Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban's tenacity on Dancing With the Stars and his status as Silicon Valley demigod, he is not considered a "who's who" by Activision. He's been left out of the videogame publisher's Wii and PlayStation 2 titles based on the ABC show, which allows you to fulfill your most nerdly ballroom-dancing fantasies in the privacy of your own living room. But sadly, Cuban's hot-trotting shoes and puppeteer-spontaneous jazz-finger outbursts are not part of the package. Instead the adaptations stick you with the likes of Emmitt Smith and Joey Lawrence.
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Comment by sample032: "Wii and PlayStation 2 titles based on the ABC show" There's a "Dancing with the Stars" video game? Bringing reality... more » | Other threads
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antitrust
Microsoft has withdrawn an appeal to the Seoul High Court and will pay the South Korean government a $35.4 million fine for antitrust violations. Microsoft will also provide two separate versions of Windows. Mark Cuban would no doubt say they both suck. [AP] -
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By Owen ThomasComment by Tim Faulkner: I blame the Viennese. I'm sure Cuban will too. more » | Other threads
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feuds
Tech industry? Mark Cuban is so not impressed with you
Flyover country may now know Mark Cuban better for his quick hips and jazz fingers on Dancing With the Stars, but the Web entrepreneur still likes to talk shop. A lot. He found an ear or two on Friday when AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg interviewed him at an otherwise obscure conference in Providence, Rhode Island. There, he explained that most everything you think is going well isn't really. Sorry. Some choice quotes after the jump. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by athenasystem: good for him. I hope he's hitting that... more » | Other threads
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superficial
In an interview, blogger, blowhard, "Dancing with the Stars" contestant, and Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban reveals that his sartorial tastes lean casual: "Lucky brand jeans, polo, and TShirtHell.com t-shirts." Billionaires, they're just like us! [StyleDiary] -
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Mark Cuban admits he can't dance
Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban warns viewers that, well, he's going to suck tonight on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," thanks to a recent hip-replacement surgery that left the muscles of one leg weak. That's okay, Mark — from the very beginning, every vote for you was already a sympathy vote. -
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Loudmouth Internet billionaire Mark Cuban thanks the "Nerd Hard" [sic] for keeping him on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" for one more week. You're welcome, Mark. And, um, thanks for noticing, I think. [Blog Maverick] -
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Save Mark Cuban!
A tragedy is brewing, folks. The Fort Worth Star-Something — apparently they have newspapers in cowtowns, who knew? — reports that Internet billionaire Mark Cuban risks getting voted off "Dancing with the Stars," due to the low scores assigned him by the judges. This is a clear example of the basest kind of antigeek prejudice. "It was like a bulldog chasing a squirrel," said one judge. Whatever! Who doesn't love bulldogs? And the worst thing: California, again, has been practically shut out of the vote, due to its Pacific timezone. The polls closed an hour ago. The Bay Area's nerd-boy hotbed, Cuban's natural constituency, left out again. So unfair! We'll have to watch tonight to see how this turns out. -
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By Owen ThomasComment by sample032: Word. Owen knows when something's gay, and he called that outfit like he saw it. more » | Other threads
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