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

Facebook beats the market with record high revenue of $4.04b in Q2

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Mark Zuckerberg would have been grinning like the Cheshire Cat Wednesday with Facebook, Inc. beating market expectations in the second quarter off continued strong growth in mobile. The social networking giant booked record high revenue of $4.04 billion for the quarter, compared …

Online auction house Catawiki raises $82m Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Online auction house Catawiki (Benaulim B.V) has raised $82 million Series C in a round led by Lead Edge Capital that included previous investors Accel Partners and Project A Ventures, along with a number of former Booking.com executives, including former Chief Marketing …

Virtual reality social platform provider AltspaceVR raises $10.3m in additional funding

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Virtual reality social platform startup AltspaceVR, Inc. has raised $10.3 million in additional funding in a round that included Tencent, Dolby Family Ventures, Raine Ventures Lux Capital, Western Technology Investments, Maven Ventures, Promus Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, and Comcast Ventures. Founded …

Slashdot, SourceForge for sale as owner DHI’s plans for both don’t pan out

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

DHI Group, Inc. announced as part of its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it intends to sell off old-school tech forum Slashdot, and open source applications and software directory SourceForge. The company acquired both properties from Geeknet, Inc. (the company previously known …

Vacation home rentals site Tripping.com raises $16m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Vacation home rentals site Tripping.com has raised $16 million Series B in a round led by Steadfast Venture Capital that also included a diverse range of institutional and individual investors including 7 Seas Venture Partners, Enspire Capital, Azure Capital, former Expedia Chief …

Disruption: Amazon Launchpad offers startups launch, market and distribution support

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc. launched a new service Tuesday that offers a disruptive service for hardware startups that provides those companies support to launch, market, and distribute their products, all wrapped with a neat bow of marketing support. Called Amazon Launchpad, the new program …

Premium food delivery service Deliveroo raises $70m Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

U.K.-based premium food delivery service Deliveroo (Roofoods Ltd.) has raised $70 million Series C in a round led Greenoaks Capital and Index Ventures that included previous investors Accel Partners and Hoxton Ventures. Founded in 2012, Deliveroo pitches itself as a technology company …

Google to disentangle forced Google+ account use with products, starting with YouTube

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google’s winding down of its mostly unused and unloved social networking platform Google+ took a new step Monday with the company announcing it would stop forcing users to use a Google+ account with Google products, with the first disentanglement being delivered to …

Samsung Unpacked August 13, expected to reveal Galaxy Note 5, S6 Plus, S6 Edge Plus

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s latest range of smartphones and phablets now has an official launch date, with the company announcing an “Unpacked” event for Thursday, August 13th. Samsung Unpacked events have traditionally been events held by the company to unveil new products, …

Winklevoss twins file paperwork to make Bitcoin Exchange Gemini Trust legal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, are one step closer to setting up a regulated Bitcoin exchange in New York with the pair filing the paperwork for a Limited Liability Trust company. Described in our previous coverage as a “NASDAQ for …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Facebook beats the market with record high revenue of $4.04b in Q2

Online auction house Catawiki raises $82m Series C

Virtual reality social platform provider AltspaceVR raises $10.3m in additional funding

Slashdot, SourceForge for sale as owner DHI’s plans for both don’t pan out

Vacation home rentals site Tripping.com raises $16m Series B

Disruption: Amazon Launchpad offers startups launch, market and distribution support

Premium food delivery service Deliveroo raises $70m Series C

Google to disentangle forced Google+ account use with products, starting with YouTube

Samsung Unpacked August 13, expected to reveal Galaxy Note 5, S6 Plus, S6 Edge Plus

Winklevoss twins file paperwork to make Bitcoin Exchange Gemini Trust legal

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