Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Banjo raises $100m Series C to build the see-all crystal ball of social media

By Duncan Riley May 7, 2015

Social data company Banjo has raised $100 million Series C in a round led by SoftBank Corp. that included BlueRun Ventures. Founded in 2011 originally as an app that allowed users to view social media…

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Atlassian snaps up real-time chat and messaging provider Hall to boost HipChat

By Duncan Riley May 6, 2015

SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Pty. Ltd. has acquired real-time chat and messaging provider Hall Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2011 originally as Companyline, Hall offers a platform that is said to…

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SaaS work management platform provider Wrike raises $15m Series B

By Duncan Riley May 6, 2015

Work management and collaboration platform provider Wrike has raised $15 million Series B in a round led by Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) that included DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures. As part of…

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Golden: Bill Maris of Google Ventures compares Secret founders to bank robbers

By Duncan Riley May 6, 2015

When anonymous messaging app Secret shut its doors last week, one aspect of the story that stood out was that the two founders of the startup had cashed out $6 million in shares prior…

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SunGard looking to IPO on a $7 billion valuation

By Duncan Riley May 6, 2015

SunGard Data Systems Inc. is said to be preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) according to multiple reports Tuesday. Reuters reported that JPMorgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Credit Suisse…

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Report: Microsoft considering a bid for Salesforce

By Duncan Riley May 6, 2015

Shares in Salesforce.com Inc. surged Tuesday after a report emerged that Microsoft Corp. might be interested in the software as a service (SaaS) CRM firm. Bloomberg claimed that “people with knowledge of the matter” say…

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Container wars heat up as CoreOS spins off appc into separate foundation

By Duncan Riley May 5, 2015

Linux distribution provider CoreOS, Inc. has taken the battle for a Linux container standard in a new direction by spinning off its App Container Spec (appc) project into a separate foundation. CoreOS launched its…

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Newly born unicorn: Cloud comms startup Twilio raises $100m Series E on $1.1b valuation

By Duncan Riley May 4, 2015

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc., has raised $100 million Series E on a valuation of $1.1 billion, making the company a newly born baby unicorn. Details of the investors were not available, but the round…

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Too little, too late? Foursquare reintroduces badges, mayorships to Swarm

By Duncan Riley May 4, 2015

Foursquare Inc. has undertaken a backflip worthy of an Olympic gold medal and has decided to reintroduce badges and mayorships to its Swarm app. The original Foursquare app (now represented by the Swarm app)…

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Power to the people: Facebook testing ways to customize top of news feed

By Duncan Riley May 3, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg and the friendly team at Facebook Inc., like nothing more than screwing with news feeds to better make money, but for once they might actually be giving some power back to users.…

Duncan Riley

Banjo raises $100m Series C to build the see-all crystal ball of social media

Atlassian snaps up real-time chat and messaging provider Hall to boost HipChat

SaaS work management platform provider Wrike raises $15m Series B

Golden: Bill Maris of Google Ventures compares Secret founders to bank robbers

SunGard looking to IPO on a $7 billion valuation

Report: Microsoft considering a bid for Salesforce

Container wars heat up as CoreOS spins off appc into separate foundation

Too little, too late? Foursquare reintroduces badges, mayorships to Swarm

Power to the people: Facebook testing ways to customize top of news feed

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