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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Prefer Pepsi over Coke? Good news: the Pepsi P1 smartphone is about to go on sale in China

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Soft drink maker PepsiCo. is branching out in a new direction with news Monday that it’s about to enter the smartphone business (note: we are not making this up). According to Reuters, the company is working with a licensing partner to market the …

Big data cybersecurity startup Cybereason raises $59m Series C in round led by Softbank

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity platform provider Cybereaon, Inc. has raised $59 million Series C in a round led surprisingly by Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. — surprising, as the company had previously announced that it was getting out of the venture capital business. Charles River Ventures …

Biggest tech & Big Data takeover ever: Dell acquires EMC for a staggering $67b

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

It’s official: Dell, Inc. has announced a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. The deal has been described by Bloomberg Business as the largest technology acquisition ever, with a deal that values EMC at a staggering $67 billion. …

Big data takeover set to be announced Monday with Dell to acquire EMC for $50b+

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Dell, Inc. is set to announce a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. later today (Monday). Re/Code makes the claim on the timing of the announcement, first rumored last week, and puts the takeover figure at above $50 …

Social justice warrior forces Google to drop .bro extension in Brotli due to it being misogynistic

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

When does the file extension .bro come with sexist, evil, female-hating misogynistic overtones? Apparently it does when you live in the social justice-obsessed world of Silicon Valley with Google being forced to replace the extension in its new Brotli file compression software. …

Purse.io denies Bitcoin theft despite compromise and multiple users saying they’ve been robbed

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has denied that a compromise over the weekend resulted in the theft of Bitcoin despite multiple users claiming to have had Bitcoin stolen from their accounts. Details of the theft first emerged on …

Apple kowtows to PRC Government by blocking its news app in China

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Kowtowing once again to the Government of the People’s Republic of China, tech giant Apple is reported to be blocking its news app in the Middle Kingdom. The New York Times reports that while the app is only currently available to download …

Etsy killer? Amazon launches a marketplace for handmade goods

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc. has entered the hand-crafted goods market with the launch of a new service Thursday. Called Handmade at Amazon, the service launched with a lineup of over 80,000 items from about 5,000 sellers in 60 countries. Listings in the service are …

Apple admits that iPhone 6s battery life differs between who made the A9 chip, but not by much

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple has surprisingly confirmed reports that the battery life on its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus varies depending on the manufacturer of the A9 chip that runs the phone, but claims that the variance is only very slight. Dubbed “batterygate” by …

No surprise as Facebook doesn’t do a dislike button but an emoji based reactions option instead

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Despite the fact most of the media predicted that Facebook, Inc. was planning to launch a dislike button, the social networking goliath has instead started testing “Reactions,” an extension of the Facebook like button that allows (as the name may suggest) users …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Prefer Pepsi over Coke? Good news: the Pepsi P1 smartphone is about to go on sale in China

Big data cybersecurity startup Cybereason raises $59m Series C in round led by Softbank

Biggest tech & Big Data takeover ever: Dell acquires EMC for a staggering $67b

Big data takeover set to be announced Monday with Dell to acquire EMC for $50b+

Purse.io denies Bitcoin theft despite compromise and multiple users saying they’ve been robbed

Apple kowtows to PRC Government by blocking its news app in China

Etsy killer? Amazon launches a marketplace for handmade goods

Apple admits that iPhone 6s battery life differs between who made the A9 chip, but not by much

No surprise as Facebook doesn’t do a dislike button but an emoji based reactions option instead

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