Mark Cuban fires 2 Mavericks employees after report details allegations of a ‘hostile work environment’ including sexual harassment and domestic violence

Bob Levey/AP A report from Sports Illustrated details allegations of a “hostile work environment” within the Dallas Mavericks organization. The allegations include years of inappropriate behavior by the team’s former president and CEO, and accusations that the head of human resources did little when women complained. The report also details allegations of domestic violence made […]

‘Shark Tank’ investors Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran just invested $400,000 in an avocado-only restaurant — here’s what it’s like to eat there

Business Insider/Jessica Tyler On a recent episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran invested in avocado-based Brooklyn eatery Avocaderia.  Each investor offered $ 200,000 for a 10% stake, giving the restaurant a $ 2 million valuation. The Brooklyn-based restaurant serves a wide variety of dishes that all use avocado, seeing success since day […]

Mark Cuban: Trump cutting the corporate tax rate will have zero impact on investment

Entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said that Trump’s proposed cut to corporate taxes won’t impact investment. Cuban said that competition, not tax rate, drives his investment. Other tax experts challenged the notion that cutting the corporate tax rate would spur growth. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur and potential presidential candidate Mark Cuban […]

How Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, and 15 other millionaires and billionaires got their start

Beck Diefenbach/Reuters Even wildly successful entrepreneurs start out from scratch. But while some build their empires from a young age, others stumble across success, while many more have to roll up their sleeves to make their businesses work. Find out how the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and J.K. Rowling got started, […]

Trump wrote Richard Branson a scathing letter in 2004, bashing him for his ‘terrible business’ and suggesting he would go ‘down in flames’ like Mark Cuban

Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images Donald Trump trashed Virgin founder Richard Branson publicly and privately for Branson’s failed 2004 reality show. Branson revealed the letter in his new book, “Finding My Virginity.” Branson claims he ignored Trump’s attempt to win his support for Trump’s presidential campaign. Thirteen years before Richard Branson called President Donald Trump “an embarrassment […]

Mark Cuban to Deliver Closing Keynote at Venture Atlanta 2017

PRESS RELEASE: ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 7, 2017– Venture Atlanta, the Southeast’s largest technology investment conference, announced today that Mark Cuban will provide the closing keynote for its 10th annual two-day showcase event, October 11-12 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as chairman and CEO of AXS TV and one of the […]

US expels 2 Cuban diplomats for medical reasons after ‘incidents’ in Havana

Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) – The United States said it had expelled two Washington-based Cuban diplomats in May after unspecified “incidents” caused physical symptoms in Americans serving at the US Embassy in Havana that an unnamed official said included hearing loss. US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Wednesday the exact nature of the […]

US expels 2 Cuban diplomats over mysterious ‘physical symptoms’ reported by US personnel

The US State Department has expelled two diplomats from the Cuban Embassy in Washington after US government personnel in Cuba reported “some incidents” which resulted in “a variety of physical symptoms.” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert has not elaborated on the nature of the reported incidents or the symptoms, except to say that they were […]

‘Total regress’: Trump would blame Havana for climate change, if he believed in it – Cuban FM to RT

The US president’s new restrictive policy towards Cuba infringes on Americans’ rights, “repeats the worst of the past” and makes “no common sense” in the modern international climate, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla told RT in an exclusive interview. The foreign policy now led by US President Donald Trump “is the policy of the […]