Mark Cuban

Judge Tosses SEC Insider Trading Suit Against Mark Cuban

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 17, 2009 - 8:40am.
Dallas - A federal judge on Friday dismissed an insider trading lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against billionaire Mark Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, the Associated Press reported. The SEC had alleged that Cuban benefitted from inside information before selling shares in Internet search engine Mamma.com back in 2004.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Mark Cuban | SEC |

Mark Cuban: When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free

Authored by Mark Cuban on July 6, 2009 - 5:41am.

The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is far from free to remain successful. The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top. The more success you have, the more important it is to management to remain successful.  The more important remaining successful is to management, the more money they will spend, the more chances they will take, the more infrastructure they will build, the more people they will hire.  All of the things that will prevent them from staying lean , mean and flexible. All of the things that distract them from innovating within their core competency.

Mark Cuban Leads $1.35M Round for SMaSh Technologies

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 21, 2009 - 7:37am.
Pittsburgh, Penn. - SMaSh Technologies, a developer of advanced text messaging technology, has raised $1.35 million in a new financing round led by entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks NBA team owner Mark Cuban.

NBA Fines Mark Cuban $25,000 Over Twitter Comments

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 31, 2009 - 12:02pm.
Dallas - Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban was fined $25,000 by the NBA over comments he made about basketball officials on Twitter, PEHub.com reported. The outspoken Cuban has racked up nearly $2 million in NBA fines to date for his antics. "how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground ?," reads one of the offending Cuban tweets. "can't say no one makes money from twitter now. the nba does )," Cuban wrote later.

Mark Cuban: Cable TV is Winning the Battle Against Internet Delivered TV

Authored by Mark Cuban on March 25, 2009 - 1:00pm.

I love this on going discussion. Of course all of you who think that the OPEN internet will be the primary platform for the delivery of traditional tv content are wrong :) . But hey, thats what makes a market. Before I get into dismissing some of the traditional arguments why Online TV will take over, let me start you with one that hasn’t been used. Rural Broadband.

Mark Cuban Launches "Open Source Funding" Experiment

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 11, 2009 - 8:53am.
Los Angeles - Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban has launched an "Open Source Funding" experiment via his blog, billing it as an economic stimulus plan that "hopefully could inspire people to create businesses that could quickly become self funding."

SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 17, 2008 - 11:13am.

Washington - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday charged Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and founder of HDNet, with insider trading over shares in a company called Mamma.com he sold in 2004. The SEC says Cuban improperly sold his 600,000 shares in Mamma.com after being informed by its CEO in a confidential manner of a transaction that would devalue his shares.

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Cuban, Kraft Back CitySquares.com's Hyper-Local Search

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 22, 2008 - 8:17am.

Boston - CitySquares.com, a provider of hyper-local search services in the Northeast U.S., announced on Wednesday that it ahs received an undisclosed amount of new funding from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, and Jonathan Kraft, of the Kraft Group.

Mark Cuban: A Note to the MPAA - Piracy Is Collateral Damage

Authored by Mark Cuban on August 4, 2008 - 7:15am.

The Motion Picture Association of America is doing their best to follow in the footsteps of their brethren at the RIAA and make business harder for its members. They, Im guessing at the direction of some lawyers of their member companies, want to try to make cable and satellite companies shut off the "analog hole" when showing movies that are being released to TV prior to their DVD release. In the MPAA's own words "Distribution over insecure outputs would facilitate the illegal copying and redistribution of this high value content, causing untold damage to the DVD and other 'downstream' markets."

Analysis: Raising the a la Carte Alarm

Authored by Paul Sweeting on May 6, 2008 - 10:17am.
The talk of the digital media blogosphere over the weekend was a report by written by Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffet headlined, And Now for the News...The Emperor Has No Clothes. It's well worth a read if you can get your hands on it. For those who can't (and even those who can), digital maverick Mark Cuban has a looong post on his blog about the report in which he reproduces many of the juiciest parts.

Mark Cuban: I Can't Believe I'm Becoming An Apple Fanboy

Authored by Mark Cuban on January 23, 2008 - 11:57am.

I ordered a MacBook Air site unseen. That's a first for me. As I write this I'm about to go workout and it dawns on me that I'm on my 3rd generation of Apple IPod. I started with the original, switched to a bigger version (to back up all my pics and show off my kids to my friends) and then for the holidays, got myself and wife an iTouch.

Mark Cuban: Sports Black Eyes, Popeye and the Media

Authored by Mark Cuban on December 18, 2007 - 8:48am.

As inevitable as the Mitchell Report response was, how long will it be before we get the headline: "Popeye denies he knew spinach was a performance enhancing drug". "I had no idea. I was just eating my vegetables. It was supposed to make me stronger. It was what, 30 or more years ago ? How much did we really know about the properties of spinach back then ? Why is the media making such a big deal out of this ? I didn't know then and I am paying the price today.

Mark Cuban: P2P Part 2 and 3

Authored by Mark Cuban on November 24, 2007 - 10:11am.

I love the feedback on my position on P2P traffic. The well thought out "You Suck", " Or "the internet isnt that way", or "The ISP is selling me 10mbs, I can use it anyway I want" Guess what, business models do evolve over time. You may want your ISP to be exactly how you want it to be. You may read into your experience with them anything you want. But it can and will change if the economics don't work for them. No amount of whining about "what the internet is supposed to be" will change any of that.

Mark Cuban: Bill O'Reilly Is Just a Wonderful, Confused Guy

Authored by Mark Cuban on November 12, 2007 - 10:27am.
I've grown to love Bill OReilly. Seriously. If there is anyone who can publicize a political movie, its Bill and I truly appreciate that about him. Magnolia Pictures and HDNet Films' Redacted premiered last week as part of HDNet's Ultra VOD program. With HDNet Ultra VOD movies premiere first in Hotels and on cable and satellite VOD systems PRIOR to making their national theatrical premieres. HDNet Movies will also show a sneak preview on Nov 14th, 2 days before the Nov 16th theatrical release.

Mark Cuban: Dancing With The Stars - What a Great Experience!

Authored by Mark Cuban on October 25, 2007 - 7:38am.
I hate to lose. Fortunately, i didn't. Even though I didn't get the votes to stay on as long as I hoped for. I won in every single way possible.  Five time I got to experience the rush/fear/excitement of knowing that when the music starts 20mm people were going to see me do something for 90 seconds I had never done before, and while I did it, I had to find a way to put that aside and love every minute of it. I did. Thats a win.

Mark Cuban: Vulnerability Has Become the Hallmark of Media Coverage

Authored by Mark Cuban on October 18, 2007 - 7:16am.
I wanted to interrupt my Dancing with the Stars posts to discuss what I think has become the hallmark of media coverage. Vulnerability. Read any newspaper. Any Magazine. Watch any news program. Any gossip or entertainment program. There is one single them that runs continuously: The Search for Vulnerability.

Mark Cuban: Countdown to Week 4 on Dancing With The Stars, The Waltz

Authored by Mark Cuban on October 15, 2007 - 7:34am.
First things first. Thank you to everyone who voted for kym and I and kept us alive this past week. I knew the Jive would be tough on me and it was. It was the first dance where I botched a step and it showed.

Sam Zell Plans to Keep the LA Times

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 10, 2007 - 6:11am.
Sam Zell said he won't be Selling the LA TimesNaming some of Los Angeles’s most well known moguls, Sam Zell said yesterday that he has no plans to sell his trophy, the LA Times, which he acquired in the deal for The Tribune Company.  "I said it to Eli Broad.  I said it to Ron Burkle.  I said it to David Geffen, and I'm saying it to you," said Zell at a conference.  He then added, “Now, if you have a price, we can talk."

Mark Cuban: Being 49 Years Old And Dancing is Exhausting!

Authored by Mark Cuban on October 8, 2007 - 6:28am.
Tonight Kym and I dance the Jive. This past week has been different than the past weeks of practicing in so many ways. We didnt get our song till Tuesday night, meaning we had 6 days. The same as everyone else of course, but dang. Knowing that Monday night is going to get here a lot faster than ever before definitely gave me a lot to think about.

Mark Cuban: Dancing With The Stars - Time To Go For It!

Authored by Mark Cuban on October 1, 2007 - 10:51am.
We have worked hard. The adrenalin is pumping. I got to check out my costume for tonight. Which is pretty cool. Not something people are going to expect from me. We have really changed up the look. Hope you like it! I have to be down in rehearsal in about 20 mins. Believe it or not, this is a little bit more nerve racking than last week. This morning we got to work with the orchestra for the first time. Well after we went through it once. At the same speed as the CD they gave us (ABC picks the music btw), Kym really felt that the tempo of the song was too slow. So boom, she got the orchestra to speed it up.