Dallas Mavs Owner Mark Cuban on Icahn's Board Slate; Cuban Pens Blog Post on How to Beat Google

Among the names of the presumptive directors: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who of course made his fortune selling Broadcast to Yahoo at the very height of the bubble. There’s something beautiful there. By including him, Icahn ensured that he’d get maximum PR buzz from the move. Now It just so happens that Cuban penned a post on his blog yesterday evening entitled “Beating Google?”. It’s a fanciful post that calculates what it would cost to pay the top site owners for 25,000 categories to block Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search and go exclusive with another ad provider. Answer: probably well over $1 billion. Would anyone—Microsoft or Yahoo—actually do something like this?
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-icahn-confirms-stake-sends-letter-to-yahoo-board-pushing-for-microsoft-/

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mark-cuban-on-beating-google/

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/05/14/beating-google/