Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Smart buy: Automattic picks up WordPress e-comm plugin maker WooCommerce for $30m+

By Duncan Riley May 19, 2015

Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress, has acquired WooCommerce, a WordPress related startup that sells WordPress e-commerce tools and themes. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but was reported by Re/Code as being “more…

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Google, Twitter ink deal to see tweets feature prominently in Google search results

By Duncan Riley May 19, 2015

Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. have come to a new agreement that will see live tweets featured prominently in Google’s search results for the first time since their previous partnership ended in 2011. Under…

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Big day for cloud comms company Twilio as it announces eight new products

By Duncan Riley May 19, 2015

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. raised the bar today in the software as a service (SaaS) comms space by announcing not one, but eight new products. Twilio offers an API that enables developers to…

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Do-gooders complain that YouTube Kids app indecently exposes Michael Jackson’s crotch

By Duncan Riley May 19, 2015

Two child and consumer advocacy groups have made an official complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google’s YouTube Kids application has been showing kids content they believe is inappropriate. The app,…

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Google fires new salvo in cloud price wars with price cuts, new VM service

By Duncan Riley May 18, 2015

The cloud service price war heated up Monday with Google announcing price cuts of up to 30 percent for its Infrastructure-as-a-Service product Compute Engine, along with a new virtual machine (VM) instance that promises to…

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Fraud protection SaaS startup Feedzai raises $17.5m Series B

By Duncan Riley May 18, 2015

Fraud protection startup Feedzai Inc. has raised $17.5 million Series B in a round led by Oak HC/FT that included existing investors Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and Espirito Santo Ventures. As part of…

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Russian court overturns Bitcoin site ban, but censorship may still be ongoing

By Duncan Riley May 18, 2015

A regional court has given cheer to the Bitcoin community in Russia with a decision to lift a court-ordered ban on Bitcoin related websites, however, the ban may not yet be lifted by the Russian Federal Government.…

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Windows Phone Devs claim Google is trying to strangle platform by cutting advertising

By Duncan Riley May 18, 2015

Is Google Inc., trying to strangle the viability of developers creating apps for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone by cutting back their ad returns? That what at least some Windows Phone developers believe, with reports…

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Honduras to use Bitcoin Blockchain tech to run its land registry

By Duncan Riley May 17, 2015

The Blockchain, best known as the ledger technology underlying Bitcoin transactions, is now being considered for other uses, and in one Central American country it’s about to be used for something completely new: land title…

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Beep beep: Google’s self-driving cars are hitting the roads of Mountain View

By Duncan Riley May 15, 2015

Residents of Mountain View, CA are in for a treat with word from Google early Friday that their self-driving Google cars are graduating from the Googleplex and are migrating into the surrounding streets. In…

Duncan Riley

Smart buy: Automattic picks up WordPress e-comm plugin maker WooCommerce for $30m+

Google, Twitter ink deal to see tweets feature prominently in Google search results

Big day for cloud comms company Twilio as it announces eight new products

Do-gooders complain that YouTube Kids app indecently exposes Michael Jackson’s crotch

Fraud protection SaaS startup Feedzai raises $17.5m Series B

Russian court overturns Bitcoin site ban, but censorship may still be ongoing

Windows Phone Devs claim Google is trying to strangle platform by cutting advertising

Honduras to use Bitcoin Blockchain tech to run its land registry

Beep beep: Google’s self-driving cars are hitting the roads of Mountain View

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