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...Mark Cuban, the guy, is just a shareholder - he has no obligation," says Jonathan Macey, a professor of securities law and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management. "The critical question is if anything happened in that phone call that gave rise to a promise." Under an SEC rule adopted in 2000, if Cuban agreed to keep the information confidential, then he had a "duty of trust or confidence...
...case against Cuban comes down to whether or not he had a duty that he breached to Mamma.com, its CEO and its shareholders. That potential duty, one of "trust or confidence" in legal parlance, revolves around a phone conversation Cuban had in 2004 with Mamma.com's then CEO after the executive e-mailed Cuban to call as soon as possible. When Cuban did, he found out about the company's pending financing deal that would dilute existing shareholders. He promptly got rid of his shares before the information was made public...
...transcript of an exchange between Mamma.com's former CEO and Cuban's lawyer in which the ex-CEO said he didn't remember Cuban agreeing to confidentiality. That account is completely at odds with the conversations and e-mails presented in the SEC complaint, including a version of the phone call that ended with Cuban saying, "Well, now I'm screwed. I can't sell...
...after 24 hours of actually testing the new BlackBerry side by side with its main competition - Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1 (the "Google phone") - the novelty quickly wore off. I hate the click screen, and none of the handful of people I let try it had anything nice to say about it either. That's a shame because the Storm has a slew of handy extras that neither the iPhone nor the G1 can match. But an annoying user interface is a deal breaker. (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
...mini, Chiclet-size keys seem designed for Lilliputians, they are accurate and respond even when pressed with the edge of a fingernail. The Storm's click screen, on the other hand, demands the strength of your entire thumb. What's more, the screen jiggles in the phone's casing when you press on it, which makes it feel cheap. (See pictures of the iPhone 3G hitting stores...