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

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.”
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D7 Video: Mark Cuban

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.
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D7 Interview: Mark Cuban

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.
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Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

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.
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Welcome to Lucky D7: Still Gambling on the Digital Future

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.
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Mark Cuban’s Twitter Bill: $510 a Word

in Media on March 29, 2009 at 5:46 pm PT

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has racked up more than $1.5 million in fines from the National Basketball Association for various transgressions. But he’s still finding ways to plow new ground. The latest: A $25,000 bill from the league for two messages, totaling 49 words, he posted via Twitter on Friday. Bonus new media debate: Can you copyright a Tweet?
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How to Shut Mark Cuban Up: SEC Insider Trading Charges

in Media on November 17, 2008 at 11:05 am PT

Investor/blogger/entrepreneur/Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban doesn’t shy away from the spotlight. Just ask him–if you can get a word in edgewise. But now Cuban is staying mum. That’s because the SEC has filed insider trading charges against Cuban, alleging that he “avoided losses of $750,000″ by dumping shares of search engine Mamma.com after learning about a secondary offering in 2004.