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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Darktrace shares rise on growing demand for services

Shares in machine learning cybersecurity firm Darktrace PLC rose in regular trading after the company revised its outlook thanks to growing demand for its services. For the six months ended Dec. 31, Darktrace reported a net profit of $5.9 million, compared with a loss of $48.4 million in the same six months in 2020. Revenue ...

Israeli AI-powered security engineering startup CardinalOps raises $17.5M

Israeli artificial intelligence-powered security engineering startup CardinalOps Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $17.5 million in new funding to fuel global expansion in go-to-market and product innovation activities. Viola Ventures led the Series A round with Battery Ventures, Glilot Capital, Symbol and top angel investors from the security industry also participating. Including the new funding, CardinalOps has ...

Shares of identity and access management firm Okta drop on weak outlook

Shares Okta Inc. dropped in late trading after the identity and access management company reported an outlook under analysts’ expectations in its latest earnings report. For the quarter ended Jan. 31, Okta reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $29 million, or 18 cents per share. That compares with an adjusted profit ...

Zuora narrowly beats earnings expectations

Shares of cloud subscription services company Zuora Inc. rose slightly in late trading today, in line with quarterly earnings that narrowly beat analyst expectations. Zuora also announced today that it had received a $400 million strategic investment from Silver Lake. The investment is said to reinforce Zuora’s leadership position and empower the company to accelerate growth, ...

Shares in business planning software company Anaplan rise on strong earnings

Shares in Anaplan Inc. rose in late trading today after the business planning software company reported better-than-expected earnings. For the quarter ended Jan. 31, Anaplan reported a loss before certain costs of $10.6 million, or 11 cents per share, up from a loss of $9.4 million, or seven cents per share, in the same quarter ...

C3 AI shares drop despite better-than-expected quarterly earnings

Shares in C3ai Inc. dropped slightly in late trading today despite the artificial intelligence software provider reporting better-than-expected earnings results. For the quarter ended Jan. 31, C3 AI reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of seven cents per share, down from a loss of 13 cents per share in the same quarter last year. ...

CrowdStrike’s new threat protection suite protects against identity threats

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today introduced a new threat protection suite to deliver identity threat prevention and information technology policy enforcement. Called Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete, the service is pitched as offering the industry’s first fully managed identity threat protection solution. Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete brings together the Falcon Identity Threat Protection module and the Falcon ...

Following cyberattack on supplier, Toyota halts production in Japan

Toyota Motor Corp. has been forced to halt manufacturing operations at all of its plants in Japan after a cyberattack struck a major component supplier. The attack targeted Kojima Industries Corp., a maker of interior and exterior automotive parts. The exact form of attack was not disclosed but is suspected to be ransomware. Nikkei Asia reported that ...

Nvidia confirms company data was stolen in cyberattack last week

Nvidia Corp. today said that company data was stolen in a cyberattack last week. In a statement, the company told PCMag that “we are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some Nvidia proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online.” The ransomware attack was first reported on Friday, with Nvidia at ...

Israeli predictive AI fraud protection startup nSure.ai raises $18M

Israeli predictive artificial intelligence fraud protection startup nSure.ai Ltd. announced today it has raised $18 million in new funding to allow the company to extend anti-fraud, chargeback-free guarantees and meet growing demand for its services. MoreTech Ventures led the Series A round, with DisruptiveAI, Gryffin Ventures and Moneta Seeds also participating. NSure.ai has raised $25.4 million to date, including a ...