Judge Dismisses SEC Insider Trading Case Against Mark Cuban
An update to our earlier story about the insider trading charges the SEC brought onto dotcom billionaire Mark Cuban, the notorious entrepreneur famous for investing in NAKEDpizza and also for founding a number of Internet startups (e.g. Broadcast.com, bought by Yahoo! for $4.6 billion) and owning the Dallas Mavericks basketball team.
Apparently, a federal judge [...]
The Naked Truth 2009 Slides: Show Me The Money
Taking place tonight in Seattle is The Naked Truth 2009, a Redfin-hosted conference to give entrepreneurs advice. Michael is there participating as an expert to discuss industry trends. This year’s topic is revenue models for consumer Internet startups. The four presenting startups, Redfin, UrbanSpoon, Picnik and Animoto have some interesting information to share via their [...]
Live from London: The Europas Awards
The Europas, the tech startup awards from TechCrunch Europe, will be streamed live from this post from 6pm tonight London time/GMT (10am SF, 1pm NYC). We’ll kick off with a startup pitch competition, followed by a panel of some of the leading lights in tech consisting of: our own Sarah Lacy, Jolicloud founder Tariq Krim, [...]
I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter
The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin, reporting from the prestigious Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference for the media and business elite, says “Sun Valley: Diller and Malone Pessimistic on Twitter.”
She adds “Diller was pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money,” and:
Malone said he didn’t think that an advertising model made sense on Twitter, [...]
