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Re: Andrea Mitchell Rips Obama Prayer Speech: After A Pilot Is Burned, "You Don't Lean Over Backwards And Be Philosophical" | Video | RealClearPolitics

Bernard Moon — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:48:38 -0000

Can you post it on YouTube, so it's easier share with a wider audience?

Re: Charge: 2012 TEACHER OF THE YEAR Took Teen Boy Into Her Home, Had Lots Of Sex With Him

Bernard Moon — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 04:50:17 -0000

Pedophiles can be woman too, but this is often overlooked since most of our society looks at these boys as not victims versus if they were young girls. Probably most of these woman were victims of abuse themselves. I know woman who were raped as teens who scarred for life which such tendencies. Our humanity can be dark and depressing if you only focus on these cycles of abuse.

Re: SparkLabs Global invests $600k in Korea’s MangoPlate

Bernard Moon — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:22:10 -0000

Minor correction... SparkLabs Global Ventures is not HQed in Seoul. It's HQed in Palo Alto, CA. SparkLabs accelerator is a separate but affiliated entity HQed in Seoul, which might have caused the confusion.

Re: The next Silicon Valley: 4 fastest growing startup cities in the world are Asian

Bernard Moon — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:52:33 -0000

It's odd that CB Insights left out Seoul with 30,000 startups in 2014, 3 recent investments of $100M+ valuing those companies at over $1B (Coupang by Sequoia, Yello Mobile by Formation8, 4:33 Creative Lab by Tencent & LINE), and KaKao (leading messaging startup) acquiring Daum (public internet portal) to create a $10 billion market cap company. All within this past year. Seoul isn't even listed, so I guess they just didn't have the data on it. Also I see that Stockholm missing, which is another huge mistake.

Re: The Next Silicon Valley

Bernard Moon — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:41:09 -0000

I agree. It's odd that you are comparing whole metro areas, such as Shanghai (24M) and St. Louis (2.8M), to suburbs of 30,000 to 100,000 residents, such as Palo Alto, Los Altos, Santa Monica, and Cambridge.

Re: iPhone 6 and Android value

Bernard Moon — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:54:08 -0000

Wondering if you use an Android phone? I use both and just the lack of a back button alone on the iPhone drives me crazy (plus playing catch up: http://bgr.com/2014/09/10/i.... But if the iPhone gets a back button, then I would consider using it more than 20% of my phone time :)

Re: Silicon Valley can’t keep up with Korea’s financial revolution

Bernard Moon — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:28:26 -0000

Additional random data and these are stats from a over a year ago: 80% of mobile subscribers using mobile payment services, 38% percent of all daily Internet banking is over mobile, and over 10% substituting mobile payment services for their credit cards.

Re: 6 reasons why Facebook didn’t pay enough for WhatsApp

Bernard Moon — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:17:48 -0000

Minor correction in that it was KaKao that pioneered the platform play of messaging apps. LINE and WeChat followed them. Amusing side stories involved too Such as WeChat's first 3 games it launched where exact copies of KaKao's first 3 successful games down to the same characters, which they didn't even change until some minor uproars. The founder of KaKao was the CEO of NHN, LINE's parent company. He left to rest and then think of his next thing, which became KaKao. His old company followed and copied his playbook step by step, but became bigger since they went to Japan and abroad earlier than KaKao.

Re: Julie Chen Plastic Surgery Confession: Before and After Pictures - Us Weekly

Bernard Moon — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:03:37 -0000

Did she even get work on her eyes? It just looks like thicker circles of makeup around them. It's her NOSE that is changed. She shaved a pound off of her NOSE. And she's talking as if no one would notice that.

Re: Tech press is all about money

Bernard Moon — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:45:05 -0000

It won't be one super success since there have been many (i.e. Mark Cuban, Guitar Hero founders, etc.), but a majority which isn't going to happen any time soon. What distributed financing models can replace the large chunks of capital that VCs provide? There has been more angel activity, but to scale many companies still need larger chunks of capital.

Re: Latest Data Kills The VC Myth Of 'Smart Money'

Bernard Moon — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:35:55 -0000

Numbers seem to be rising? I would research the industry surveys. Hundreds have closed over the past few years. I believe two years it dropped from 900+ to 700+, and last year I believe was a similar drop. Many VCs have stated there is too much money in the industry.

Anyway, it would be interesting to see how the top 5, 10 and 20 performed to the overall industry. I'm still assuming that the top 10 pick or get the best deals.

Re: Planet TEDx

Bernard Moon — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:41:59 -0000

This article doesn't share cleanly on FB.

Re: NASA & ESA successfully test ‘interplanetary Internet’ connection

Bernard Moon — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:46:07 -0000

Eh? DARPA, which created the Internet, was under the military budget. Maybe customize your comment to "fund all science driven projects"?

Re: Romney Leads Final Gallup Poll By 1 Point

Bernard Moon — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:00:07 -0000

Yeah, Gallup is biased... whatever. Just because they don't fit into your narrative, bash them. That's mature... Gallup has predicted every presidential election besides two over the past 100 years. They had Obama over McCain in 2008.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/...

Re: America's 50 Best Cities

Bernard Moon — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:29:55 -0000

Why is Boeing written under Seattle? It's HQ is in Chicago.

Re: Apple-Samsung juror: ‘I could defend this if it was my patent.’

Bernard Moon — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:07:33 -0000

I went by the article and didn't see the interview. I don't have time to post a hundred comments being an Apple fanboy and bashing Samsung on a few dozen articles. Thanks, dude.

Re: Apple-Samsung juror: ‘I could defend this if it was my patent.’

Bernard Moon — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:14:26 -0000

460 patent? Uh-oh... someone or group rushed a decision. so does this mean that he really thought Samsung should have won or did he just confuse which company he was deciding on or which patent was owned by whom? Uh-oh... there's big trouble for the next court to sift through this mess.

In hindsight, maybe patent cases shouldn't be decided by a jury?

Re: Part 1: Behind the scenes of a seed round - Hippoland: adventures abound!

Bernard Moon — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:15:03 -0000

Loved it. Thanks for sharing!

Re: 5 of tech's most powerful lawyers

Bernard Moon — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:03:45 -0000

wait, there's six people...

Re: iPhone 5 will have at least a 4-inch screen, says WSJ | VentureBeat

Bernard Moon — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:03:17 -0000

Follow the design leader :)

Re: Microsoft files complaint against Motorola in EU for ball-busting on essential patents | VentureBeat

Bernard Moon — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:02:21 -0000

The number of patents is not relevant, so that's a stupid PR game that Heiner/Microsoft is playing. It really depends on the importance and strength of those patents.

Also I don't believe Microsoft is actually trying to play victim when they've laughed at Google over the past years for "thinking" Android was free to Google's OEM partners. They put a strangle-hold on HTC and others with their own toll for their patents while doing a troll dance as the handset makers crossed their bridge.

Re: It’s Official, Linsanity Is For Real | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Bernard Moon — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:14:23 -0000

Where did this misconception begin where Lin can't shoot? Was it some uninformed NBA analysts on TV? All you have to look at are the scouting reports and his college stats. Lin shot 51.9% during his senior year at Harvard and almost 60% on 2 pointers.

Re: Twitter Acquires Social Summary Tool Summify

Bernard Moon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:42:51 -0000

Sucks that they are shutting down Summify, but congratulations to their team.

Re: They Did It: Google Personalizes Search & It Is Not Evil

Bernard Moon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:24:42 -0000

Jon, this is one of the most reasonable analysis out there. Some rants have been a bit over the top. The G+ search is simply an option. Dept of Justice inquiry? Please...

And it was Facebook and Twitter that have closed off their data to Google, so the anti-trust talk is simply stupid especially when Facebook is a walled garden and exceeds Google traffic in some metrics.Obvious point is that Google's monopoly on search has zero barriers. Anyone can move to Bing or Yahoo or Baidu, etc. So where is the anti-trust in this?

Re: Tough negotiator: HP wanted $1.2B for webOS and Palm’s assets (exclusive) | VentureBeat

Bernard Moon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:31:18 -0000

If true, that's just crazy. It would be interesting to see the pitch deck and how they justified such a price.