>> tonight mark cuban for the hour. mark cuban is a man who wears many hats. dallas mavericks owner, axis tv chairman, investor. welcome to you. >> thanks, piers. >> where do we start with you? i watched you last night. amazing moment. your team beating the knicks in the last second with a typical cubanesque moment. i thought there's this guy who went you were 19, 20, you didn't have a dime to rub between you, right? and there you are the billionaire owner of a basketball team beating the knicks in their own backyard. what did that moment feel like for you? >> it's amazing. that's one of the beauties of owning a sports team when you get to run out on the court where there's a buzzer beater jumping up and down with everyone else and the cops aren't chasing you. it's surreal, an amazing feeling. >> do you pinch yourself sometimes? >> every day. i can't tell you how many times i'll just look around and my family and just everything that's going on and just -- it's crazy. it's amazing. and i try to never take it for granted. >> your story is extraordinary. because

it would be hard to back away photo >> you are backed by mark cuban. that is incredible.is that like to be backed by him? >> he obviously works with entrepreneurs pretty regularly. when you get advice from mark cuban, it tends to be really to the point and really useful. so that has been really great for us. >> comeback when you want to talk economic. patrick petitti and rob veryrman with hourlynerd, cool. you guys graduate in may? york, third week of may. >> sounds good. >> thank you for having us. >> that is actually true. right of ay for the lifetime. it is our twitter question of our day -- what is your favorite olympics storyline? there are so many to choose from. the jamaican bobsled team without their equipment, hotel rooms not complete, the water that is brown, tweet us @bsurveillance. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." dell futures up 16. it is quite before this morning's job report at 8:30 this morning. with me scarlet fu and cristina alesci. is singleiday, here best chart. i had my head in sochi. >> sochi is all the top headlines anyway, so

mark cuban is on board as an investor raising 750,000 private investments over the summer. what is the next step to expand and grow? >> first of all, having mark on board is fantastic. he is incredibly credible resources for business large aad small and great mentor and adviser for the mmnagement team. the way we will grow, we are generating a ton of cash flow but more importantly the best way to grow is leverage channel partnerships, distribution arrangements. and serve the official consulting arm for their internal reseller channel, 100,000 and all over the country, and we can pursue whether with franchises or small business credit cards or provide software and cost-effective for the capital. adam: send an e-mail to mark cuban and he responded within 15 minutes. what did you say in that e-mail? they look to get acquired at some point by linkedin? >> on the mark cuban point, we did actually, one of our other co-founders actually had the ingenious idea of shooting mark, we heard from others in the past, pretty receptive to things like that. it was pretty concise and to the p

i was starting to say, if you look at mark cuban, a kid comes on the set it drives him nuts. he wants to attack and can't. he hates when they put kids on the set. >> can you tell the minute someone walks in and they open their mouth, can you pretty much tell i'm going to like this or i'm not? >> you don't know if you will like them but you sure know if you don't. what happens, when they walk in the shark tank set, they let them sit there for two minutes and they haven't been warned. the cameras are in their face. and they tell them don't talk until talked to and no sharks talk to them for two minutes. in those two minutes, we have watched one entrepreneur after another crumble. >> in what way? shaking? >> that's the last thing. they break eye contact. first is smiling, they are no longer smiling. they are making the rounds with their eyes, now looking down, then shrugging their shoulders. you can see them falling apart. that's the kind of person who is never going to make you money. >> you know what's interesting, you guys more and more seem to be partnering up. >> yeah. >> i

i wish i had your brain, mark cuban. >> yeah, whatever. >> been great to talk to you. your book "how to win at the sport of business" and "shark tank" airs on fridays. mark cuban, remarkable ban. that's all for us tonight. good night. >>> good evening. new calls to stop the bill that some say protects religious freedom. two former republican presidential candidates weigh in. supporters of the bill are avoiding us. interest groups won't come on this show to defend it. and this young boy is at the center of a medical mystery. his battle with a crippling disease and spreading fear throughout the country. >>> is amanda knox's ex-boyfriend turning on him? what he's saying what she did shortly after the murder. >>> we begin with the growing backlash to the bill in arizona. mitt romney now joining the calls against it. he tweets, veto of this is right. he's against it, so are john mccain and jeff flake. so are big corporations. with the super bowl coming to phoenix next year, governor brewer has the nfl to worry about. local business leaders are calling for a veto. so are the

mark cuban. you went on shark tank. it is a fun show to watch. what was your calculation?that i would need to do it at a certain percentage. july 2012. connell: what do your financials look like now? >> we have organically been growing. we are hitting great margins. connell: thank you for coming in. >> there are a lot of other claim ticket out there. connell: good luck with that. nice to meet you. pretty cool. dagen: yes. very cool. connell: mark cuban is good. good on twitter. it takes some of the burden off of the banks. banks are lobbying congress to change that and force the company responsible for the breach. the bankers say the merchants need better security. stop finger-pointing and start talking about shared responsibility. what is their responsibility in this? it was not a bank security system that was breached. it was targets security system. supporters are somewhat skeptical.3 dagen: ford rolling out a chocolate mustang for valentine's day. creating mini chocolate versions of its 2015 mustang. check this out. it takes a few hours to make three of those suites. c

. >> mark cuban invested in your company after your appearance on "shark tank."been involved? >> he has been involved because we are working on other apps. we launched another one that is more for selfies. but 3-d, so you scan your face and it does a 3-d. >> let me ask you. how has it been to work with the app store and get this thing approved? to do things apple did not intend? >> i was afraid it would not be approved. to tell you the truth. when we submitted it, it was the day before christmas. you know they closed on christmas, so i was not sure. we got rejected at first and i had to do a video to show it. i said it was magic, and so i did a video. the video went viral. 600,000 views in a few days. that is what launched the app. >> that is how you got into the app store? >> yes. >> what is going on with the back of your phone? >> that is just a signature. >> whose signature is that? >> that is 50 cent. >> permanent, on your phone? >> i kind of collect signatures. this is my favorite one. >> do you have another phone? we can sign it. all right. >> i always have

you get a realtime sense of what mark cuban thinks about the s.e.c. today.ter the event to ask him what he was doing there, he said he was in d.c. anyway for another event and decided to stick around for the chair's speech. >> outspoken critic of the agency and market structure in general. eamon, and certainly not afraid to let his opinions be known. eamon jaffers. if he were on "shark tank" he would say, i'm out. >> exactly. for people following him on twitter they got a play by play of that meeting. >>> scott wapner has the "halftime" coming up. >> thanks. another weak number regarding the economy and yet the stock market proves resilient once again. it's up and there are a number of good stories. under armour, groupon. you have talked about all of them. >> and that under armour we owe to you. good stuff playing today. >> appreciate it. have a great weekend. welcome to the "halftime" report. following the biggest stories of the day. under siege. under armour ceo talks to us about his new speed skating deal and the damage that's been done to his brand. >>>

mark cuban sold his website many years ago and it was $11,000 peruser.this seems pretty good. >> assuming all those userses stick with it. i've been checking it out and it's a perfectly good service. except there are no charges. you can basically text until 3:00 in the morning for free. >> right. well, i have a plan that is texting unlimited. >> but you pay for that. >> but it's unlimited. but for people in other countries, especially where this is very popular, it is completely free. and you don't need to have a plan to do that. >> i love the human interest back story here. the co-founder of this site couldn't get a job, couldn't get hired by facebook back in 2009 and here he is negotiating zuckerberg and coming up with this huge pay -- >> right. when lexi stemple, our executive producer sent that to me, i said, yeah, you go for it. the other founder was living on food stamps when he was little. look at this now. >> all these techkies are going back to their garage. >> but on facebook, whether it -- you know, facebook has the money to do this. it's bett

accomplished well known business heavyweights like bill gates or richard branson, meg whitman, mark cubanhere too. those are linkedin's influencers and they share ideas. this program has been extraordinarily popular because the top successful people have shared their insights and experts and now linkedin expanding this perk previously available only to well-known business personalities, you could all be it but they were the only ones allowed to write. now they are expanding to all linkedin users. you can pass on nuggets of brilliance you feel you have about business. how does this fit into the company's strategy and how much of a revenue booster could this give linkedin? the executive editor, this to me is a fascinating, fascinating effort because linkedin -- of i would be there all day long reading what richard branson has to say about the most important person in his life, he said was his assistant, they are all different things. i did one called the 5:30 a.m. workout, got 700,000 kids. people like to learn from others they feel are in different realms. what is the new effort you guys p

tomorrow night, mark cuban for the hour.s right now. >>> good evening, everyone. we'll take you inside the takedown of one of the biggest dug lords. and warning, a pain killer that pregnant women are told to take. how safe is tylenol. we begin keeping them honest on arizona senate bill 1062, legislation that would allow businesses to refuse service on the basis of religious beliefs of anywhere owners. refu

tomorrow night, mark cuban for the hour. "anderson cooper" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. we'll take you inside the takedown of one of the biggest dug lords. and warning, a pain killer that pregnant women are told to take. how safe is tylenol. we begin keeping them honest on arizona senate bill 1062, legislation that would allow businesses to refuse service on the basis of religious beliefs of anywhere owners. refusing service to gays, lesbians, unmarried mothers, unmarried couples. virtually anyone who is isn't already protected under the federal rights act. this bill faces strong opposition from gay and lesbian people in arizona and others. they do not show opposition to the bill from others who fear that sb-62 will lead to boycotts of the state. others have said they want governor brewer to veto it. some lawmakers voted for the bill and are now having second thoughts. one of them defends their intentions, saying it's not anti-gay but pro freedom of religion. here's an attorney for the alliance defending fre

tomorrow night, mark cuban for the hour. good evening, everyone. we'll take you inside the takedown of one of the biggest dug lords. and warning, a pain killer that

with maverick billionaire mark cuban talks or walks right across the court.id to say exactly what he thinks. >> swag is being able to tell other people what they need to do and not having to worry about them telling you what to do. >> i'll ask him about winning and sports. >> i said would you sell the team. he said yeah. i said what's your price. i didn't negotiate. i just wrote him the check. >> winning in business? >> and what it takes to make it big on ""shark tank."" >> i want it to sinkon

with maverick billionaire mark cuban talks or walks right across the court.id to say exactly what he thinks. >> swag is being able to tell

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. >> he is mark cuban. >> there are no editors -- if you are on twitter or linkedin. it out there. it resonates. that's exactly what your guys are doing. >> and they get really upset if it does not resonate. the data is the editor for them. i come back and say, why did this story do well? >> a lot of comments going back and forth. jamie dimon. >> i'm going to say economy. how about that? [laughter] jamie dimon is another one who he-- he manages to get, when writes certain things, he wrote about the economy. withe were not thrilled what he said because he said the economy is doing great. he said, from where i sit in nebraska, it's not doing great. >> mr. fatcat banker. >> but people respond very well. people understand what he is doing. he is building up of following. he's working on it. this guy saved the economy, then got tarred for it. he's done a lot of good things. a lot of bad things. i would be very curious to see in 20 years when we look back on jamie diamond, how we judge him. >> speaking of legacy, this guy is just beginning building is. can i say this? this

instead of mark cuban, it's mark zuckerberg sitting next to kevin o'leary and zuckerberg offers $16 billion to the whatsapp founder. what do you think kevin would say? >> well, we don't have to wonder. he's joining us now. investor on "shark tank." kevin, great to see you again. what would you say about this deal? >> well, i think it brings up four big issues. i'm trying to be pragmatic about it as an institutional investor. first of all, i do not own any facebook stock, and i never would because i never own dual-class voting shares. here's exactly why i don't. the last time i looked at this deal -- and first of all, i want to congratulate all the sellers. the shareholders of this app have done a very good deal for themselves. that's what capitalism is all about. but if i were a shareholder of facebook, it raises four huge questions for me. number one, and because obviously i don't have a typical due diligence process in terms of valuing this deal, in this case, the ceo decides what he wants tooed. it doesn't go back to his board. i think they made a mistake. it's the first time ever i call

we worked with mark cuban. >> seahawks didn't have you on the big screen. >> we wanted an all weigh iner bowl but didn't get there. if you see me on twitter, you can see the instances where we use this. best buy used us at christmas and they had the top ten trending environments. you'd click on gifts. if you didn't know what to buy, you could click on what's trending and could see the media traffic around that particular camera, what people are saying. they got 24% click-through rates because it was much more credible to have the social media conversation behind the recommendation. >> you don't worry about twitter? >> i think twitter is right on. >> could you monetize it? >> we're talking about making the social media conversation relevant and useful for enterprises. we love twitter. we love facebook. we love all of the social media conversations. that's real, unfiltered -- some of it is gamed but most of it is real. it's kind of the wisdom of the crowds being brought tout brands. and brands are loving now that they finally see a way to use social media to their advantage. >> it is a s

goes up, mark cuban sells his broadcast.com. >> yahoo!.6 billion. >> one of the great sales of all-time. >> yeenious. >> and bought a sports team and looking great. >> and 747. >> and he does shark tank. amazing. >> yeah, yeah. >> i respect him. i respect him a lot. >> i do, too. we'll talk about puerto rico when we come back. and courtney reagan is on the floor and what's moving. >> we saw futures bounce around this morning when we heard the remarks out of janet yellen what she'll say in just a couple hours or less than that at this time. but if you look at what the s&p has really done over the past week, we're up 2 1/2 percent. remember the correction we talked about? it looks as if that's in the rear view mirror at least now. we did see the ten year move above 2.7 after yellen's remarks were released. behaving in a way we might expect a little bit more. if we look through sop of the remarks that's what's the traders are looking at here today. yellen said asset purchases are not on a preset course and if we cross the previously indicate

cubans. >> i think things are -- people are supporting change now. it's funny, we markn ed sullivan. all the events you talked about, as glenn mentioned, they were roughly 50 years ago as well, and yet nothing has changed in terms of this policy. i think most americans now look at this from a common sense standpoint and say why not? we talk to everybody. why don't we have some kind of relationship? and then there are underlying reasons that support it in terms of its place in the region and business, et cetera. i don't think there's a lot for the president and frankly many republicans. >>> a lot more on this. it will be on my website with my pollsters including what they say about when president obama may announce a change in policy. of course the olympics are up next right hear on msnbc russia against japan in women's hockey. >>> i'm meteorologist bill karins and a very high impact winter weather impact over the next two days and it does look like the worst will be occurring in the south starting late this evening and lasting right through the day on wednesday. and the