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Web Video Doubter Mark Cuban Invests in Web Video Studio Revision3

Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2011 at 5:01 am PT

Mark Cuban, Web video skeptic? Meet Mark Cuban, Web video investor. He’s the guy putting money into the company that brings us Diggnation, Tekzilla and Scam School.

Ready for 3-D Web Video? Break Media Is Serving It Up Anyway

Peter Kafka in Media on July 27, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

You probably don’t have a TV or PC that can handle 3-D stuff yet, but no matter: Certain brands are convinced this is the future, and Break Media is happy to work with them.

HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban: The Full D7 Session

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 30, 2009 at 1:30 am PT

What can one say about Mark Cuban that he can’t say himself? Not much, as you will see from this sassy onstage interview he did with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, where he talked about everything from the idiots of the Internet to the subsidization of Web video by Google.

HDNet Chairman Mark Cuban: The Full D7 Session

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 30, 2009 at 1:19 am PT

What can one say about Mark Cuban that he can’t say himself? Not much, as you will see from this sassy onstage interview he did with Walt Mossberg and me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, where he talked about everything from the idiots of the Internet to the subsidization of Web video by Google.

More Mark Cuban (Trapped in the Green Room at D7 with BoomTown and the Flip Video Camera)!

Kara Swisher in News on June 1, 2009 at 11:05 am PT

Last week, Walt Mossberg and I interviewed entrepreneur, high-definition television fanboy, dancing fool and reliable gadfly Mark Cuban at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. After our onstage interview, BoomTown also got him to be more specific about his thoughts on a variety of things he discussed, including Google’s underwriting of its YouTube video subsidiary, the problems with broadband and the Internet as a “utility.”

D7 Video: Mark Cuban

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Mark Cuban, outspoken HDNet Chairman and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a few strong ideas about start-up culture, basketball and business models for making money from online content–and he’s been sharing them for a long time. Wonder if he still thinks “only a moron” would invest in YouTube.

D7 Interview: Mark Cuban

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm PT

Mark Cuban was lucky enough to make billions on Internet video during the Web 1.0 bubble, and smart enough to cash out before it burst. He’s spent a bunch of that money on high-profile purchases like a basketball team and a Gulfstream. But much of his investment and energy since then has been directed… away from Web video and toward conventional video, in the form of movies and television. Cuban’s portfolio companies make movies and television shows and distribute them to movie theaters and television sets. And he’s been loudly skeptical about the possibilities of Web video outlets like YouTube–around the time that Google plunked down $1.6 billion on the site, he declared that “only a moron” would want to invest in it. Time to see if still feels the same way.

Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

Kara Swisher in D7 on May 4, 2009 at 12:26 am PT

Incredibly, this is the seventh year of the D: All Things Digital conference. We feel very lucky to get here, especially in the midst of what our own site’s Digital Daily scribe, John Paczkowski, has so perfectly dubbed the “econalypse.” Ironically, Walt Mossberg and I planned to launch the very first conference in the middle of the last major downturn for tech, in 2001. But, in the carnage of the Web 1.0 meltdown, we actually held off for two years, with our first D gathering taking place in 2003.

Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

Kara Swisher in D7 on May 4, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Incredibly, this is the seventh year of the D: All Things Digital conference. We feel very lucky to get here, especially in the midst of what our own site’s Digital Daily scribe, John Paczkowski, has so perfectly dubbed the “econalypse.” Ironically, Walt Mossberg and I planned to launch the very first conference in the middle of the last major downturn for tech, in 2001. But, in the carnage of the Web 1.0 meltdown, we actually held off for two years, with our first D gathering taking place in 2003. Well, we’re still going–making the same long-term bet that the digital revolution will keep rolling as we did at D1. Here’s our lineup for D7.

The Sweet, Sweet Irony of Mark Cuban and Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on May 15, 2008 at 4:25 pm PT

Of the amazingly Internet-experience-free board that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has proposed to replace Yahoo’s current directors in this proxy fight, there is one name who does have a lot of Web-related experience, especially with regards to Yahoo. Specifically, in how to make bank from Yahoo’s desperation. That would be entrepreneur and all-around bon vivant Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in the heady days of 1999 for $5.7 billion in Yahoo stock.