Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Autodesk tops earnings estimates as billings surge 33%

Shares in Autodesk Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the computer-aided design company reported earnings and revenue ahead of expectations in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and also provided stronger-than-expected guidance for the year ahead. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Autodesk reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.85, ...

Zscaler stock drops after solid quarter fails to excite investors

Shares in Zscaler Inc. fell more than 9% in late trading today despite the cloud security company reporting beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and providing an outlook ahead of expectations, as investors were looking for something more upbeat from the company. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Zscaler reported adjusted earnings ...

Block rallies after Dorsey slashes 40% of workforce in AI-native reset as earnings top estimates

Shares of Block Inc. surged more than 23% in late trading today after the financial services company announced that it was laying off more than 4,000 people from its approximately 10,000-person workforce alongside an earnings beat in its fiscal fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, Block reported adjusted earnings per share ...

Versa rolls out Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service to keep data and control planes within national borders

Versa Networks Inc. today announced the general availability of Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service, a fully managed sovereign secure access service edge offering delivered from infrastructure operated entirely within an organization’s legal jurisdiction. The solution has been designed to provide comprehensive SASE functionality, with the entire data, control and management planes contained within that same jurisdiction, a requirement ...

Google brings robotics software company Intrinsic in-house to accelerate physical AI

Google LLC announced today that it’s bringing robotics software company Intrinsic Innovation LLC into its core operations to accelerate development of physical artificial intelligence as part of its push to extend AI beyond digital applications and into real-world industrial environments. The move folds Intrinsic, a company that in 2021 was spun out of X, Alphabet Inc.’s ...

C3 AI shares plunge as earnings miss, shrinking sales and weak outlook rattle investors

Shares in C3.ai Inc. cratered more than 20% in late trading today after the artificial intelligence software maker fell well short of expectations in its fiscal 2026 third quarter. It also gave fourth-quarter guidance that was well below expectations amid declining revenue and continued operating losses that raise fresh concerns about the company’s growth trajectory. ...

Zoom shares sink after earnings miss and weaker fiscal 2027 outlook

Shares in Zoom Communications Inc. slumped nearly 3% in late trading today after the online communications company fell short of fiscal fourth-quarter earnings expectations and also missed on its first quarter and full-year earnings outlooks. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Zoom reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.44, up from $1.41 per ...

Nutanix rallies on strong quarter and AMD investment as Everpure tops estimates

Shares of Nutanix Inc. and Everpure Inc., formerly Pure Storage Inc., both rose in late trading today as the companies whose products are often bought together impressed investors with earnings beats in their respective quarters. Nutanix’s shares, up about 15%, may have been buoyed as well by a new enterprise artificial intelligence deal with Advanced ...

Lightrun debuts real-time AI site reliability engineer for autonomous software remediation

Software observability startup Lightrun Inc. today announced the launch of an artificial intelligence site reliability engineer. It allows AI agents and engineering teams to create missing evidence dynamically without redeployments, prove root causes with live execution data and validate fixes directly in live environments. As the adoption of AI agents and coding assistants has accelerated code generation, ...

AI accounting startup Basis secures $100M at $1.15B valuation as firms adopt agent-based workflows

Artificial intelligence agent platform for accountants startup Basis today revealed that it has raised $100 million in new funding on a $1.15 billion valuation to accelerate development of its platform and to increase its headcount. Founded in 2023, Basis offers software designed to automate structured accounting workflows across tax, audit and advisory functions. The company’s platform ...