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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Microsoft finally rolls out limited support for Android apps in Windows 11

Microsoft Corp. today rolled out limited support for Android apps in the latest beta testing preview of Windows 11. Microsoft announced support for Android apps in Windows 11 in June, the same time it surprised just about everyone that there would be a new version of Windows. Although Microsoft has denied ever saying that Windows 10 ...

Bot detection and mitigation platform startup Netacea raises $12M

Bot detection and mitigation platform startup Netacea Ltd. today announced that it has received £9m ($12m) in new funding to expand its presence in the U.K. and the U.S. Investors in this Series A round included Mercia Asset Management and several individual investors. Founded in 2018, Netacea detects and mitigates against bot attacks that target mobile, website and ...

Data stolen in ransomware attack on San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers American football team has been struck by a ransomware attack, with financial data stolen. Credit for the attack has been taken by a ransomware gang going by the name of BlackByte. The gang first emerged in July and was the subject of a joint cybersecurity advisory by the U.S. Federal Bureau ...

In SEC settlement, BlockFi agrees to pay $100M and register crypto lending service

Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi Lending LLC has agreed to pay $100 million in penalties and pursue registration of its crypto lending product as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The payment came about after the SEC charged BlockFi with failing to register the offers and sales of its retail crypto lending product. ...

Coinbase Super Bowl QR code ad crashes website, raises security concerns

Advertising for cryptocurrency services got a lot of attention during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but an ad for Coinbase Inc. managed to crash their website and raise security concerns. Companies advertising cryptocurrency-related services during the Super Bowl included FTX trading Ltd., EToro and Coinbase, with all three seeing surges in app popularity following their ads, according ...

Binance invests $200M into Forbes ahead of SPAC merger

In one of the more weird investments in recent times, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, today announced that it’s investing $200 million into legacy media company Forbes Media LLC, the publisher of Forbes magazine. The $200 million strategic investment will go to both Forbes and Magnus Opus Acquisition Ltd., the special-purpose acquisition company Forbes ...

After tweeting part of its earnings early, Affirm sees shares plunge

Typically a company will release a quarterly earnings report at the close or sometimes the beginning of the stock market trading day. But today, Affirm Holdings Inc. accidentally released its earnings in the middle of the day, and the result wasn’t good. Affirm was scheduled to release its earnings at 4 p.m. EST. However, the ...

Freshworks shares drop despite slightly better-than-expected revenue and outlook

Shares of Freshworks Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today despite the customer service and support software firm reporting slightly better-than-expected revenue and outlook in its latest earnings report. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Freshworks reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of six cents per share, up from a loss of one cent per ...

Cyber boom: Security firms Cloudflare, CyberArk and Qualys all report solid earnings

As cybersecurity daily becomes a more critical business concern, security-related companies logged another solid day as Cloudflare Inc., CyberArk Software Ltd. and Qualys Inc. all reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings results today. Cloudflare For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Cloudflare breakeven results before costs such as stock compensation, improving on a loss of two cents per share in the ...

Data protection startup Titaniam raises $6M for sales and product growth

Data protection and privacy startup Titaniam Inc. revealed today that it has raised $6 million in new funding to support an aggressive sales expansion and further product innovations. Refinery Ventures led the seed round. Also participating in the round were Fusion Fund, Shasta Ventures, Ray Rothrock, Richard Clarke and Dale Fuller. Founded and led by Arti Raman, a ...