Sometimes it’s not the obvious things that create the biggest problems.  In this case one of the hidden job killers in our economy today is the explosion of patent litigation.

Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, has invested an undisclosed amount in Revision3. Cuban is a serial investor; he’s backed Superfeedr, SlideShare, BlueCava, and SMaSh in the past. Still, as AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka points out, the investment in Revision3, which produces a line-up of online video shows, is striking in…

I personally can’t think of anything stupider for the big broadcast networks to do than give their shows to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for free. Why ? Because they are finally getting BILLIONS of dollars in retransmission fees from their distributors.  This is new money. It is found money. It is…

Over the last couple of years, as the newspaper business has become ever more desperate, a slew of high-profile media figures have volunteered suggestions on a new way forward, recommending that newspapers do everything from turn themselves into “baby” Amazon.coms to speak more “truth to power.” The latest example came…

Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactive—about 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple that’s been together for 20 years,…

When Mark Cuban (image, left) thinks of newspapers, he thinks of vampires. Newspapers getting their blood sucked by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and content aggregators, said Cuban, the chairman of HDNet & Owner, Dallas Mavericks, speaking at the OnMedia conference in New York. While Cuban’s vampire lore might be off, he…

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick and allows us to publish it here when the subject fits. If you want to know why it’s going to take longer than people hope or expect to get out this great recession,…

A federal judge has dismissed SEC insider trading charges against entreprenuer and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban over the way he dissolved his investment in search engine Mamma.com. The SEC has 30 days to file an amended complaint but given the bad publicity from this one—and the changes at the…

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick. This post, which follows an earlier look at Free versus Freely Distributed, is published here with his permission. The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is…

An interesting discussion over on our sister site mocoNews.net, where Mark Cuban gave us permission to publish a post about the mobile future that first appeared on his Blog Maverick. An excerpt ( keeping Mark’s punctuation): “I would love to be able to ditch my laptop and desktop and only…

I gave up reading all of the responses to billionaire Mark Cuban’s offer of funding for businesses with serious potential run by people willing to post the plans online but Cuban slogged through all 1,400-plus. The “vast majority” didn’t qualify, he reports. Of those who read the rules and submitted…

It’s been about 24 hours since Mark Cuban started his own stimulus package on his Blog Maverick and whether or not he comes up a winning investment or two, so far, it’s the text-based, geeky equivalent of American Idol. (I would say Dancing with the Stars given our host’s history…

Sorry I didn’t start a pool on how long it would take the usually voluble Mark Cuban to move past that first relatively low-key—for him—response to the SEC’s charges of insider trading yesterday. Well, technically, he isn’t doing the talking. Instead,  Tuesday’s salvo posted on Cuban’s Blog Maverick is from…

Mark Cuban’s personal response to insider trading chargers filed today by the SEC is limited to one line on BlogMaverick: “I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job.” His official statement in the press release…

The SEC has charged internet entrepreneur and NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading over shares of Mamma.com. The high-profile complaint—the press release is highlighted on SEC.gov at the moment—alleges that in June 2004, Cuban sold 600,000 shares of the search engine company’s stock within hours of receiving…

CitySquares.com has picked up an unspecified amount of funding from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the Kraft Group’s Jonathan Kraft. It’s the Boston-based hyperlocal search company’s second round—the first was from the eCoast Angel Network in April 2007. CitySquares used those funds to expand from just covering Boston to…

When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) assembled a slate for Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) board, the names didn’t matter too much: it was mainly about getting ten directors who would vote yes. For Icahn, it’s a little different, because the play isn’t so cut and dry. We still don’t know, for example, how…

Michael Eisner may not be the same hot ticket at SxSW as he would be elsewhere, but the conference organizers made the curious decision to put an interview of him by Mark Cuban in the smallest room in the house (just the Mavs fans alone could probably fill all the…