Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Periscope & Meerkat users stream Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, when will HBO/ Showtime sue?

By Duncan Riley May 3, 2015

Meerket, Inc. and Twitter, Inc.’s Periscope may find themselves at the end of legal action from HBO and Showtime after users flooded both services with illegal streams of the “Fight of the Century” on…

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Report: Spotify raises $350 million on a $8 billion valuation

By Duncan Riley May 1, 2015

Spotify Inc. is reported to have raised $350 million on a high unicorn valuation of $8 billion. It’s not entirely clear if the round was Series G, or an extension on its Series F…

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Food delivery marketplace Foodpanda raises $100 million Series E

By Duncan Riley May 1, 2015

Global food delivery marketplace Foodpanda has raised $100 million Series E in a round led by Goldman Sachs Investment that included previous investor Rocket Internet SE. Founded in 2012, Foodpanda has a global food delivery…

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LinkedIn shares plummet as Q1 financials revise down future projections

By Duncan Riley Apr 30, 2015

LinkedIn Inc. shares took a beating Thursday as the professional social networking company presented solid Q1 financials but revised down projected earnings for Q2. The company reported revenue in the first quarter of $638 million,…

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Adieu: Grooveshark shuts its doors as part of a legal settlement with the music industry

By Duncan Riley Apr 30, 2015

Streaming music service Grooveshark (Escape Media, Inc.) is no longer with the company, shutting its doors today after a six-year battle with the music industry. According to reports, the closure is part of a…

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Circa news app on the market after it fails to raise a new round

By Duncan Riley Apr 30, 2015

Circa 1605 Inc., the makers of the Circa news app are said to be on the market after the company failed to raise a new round of venture capital. According to a report from Forbes the San…

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Amazon acquires AWS EC2 spot market savings startup ClusterK

By Duncan Riley Apr 30, 2015

Amazon has snapped up ClusterK, Inc., a startup that allows other companies to save up to 90 percent on Amazon Web Services EC2 spot clusters. The price of the acquisition hasn’t been publicly announced,…

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Report: Salesforce has hired bankers to field takeover offers

By Duncan Riley Apr 29, 2015

Salesforce.com, Inc. is said to have hired bankers to field takeover offers after being approached by a potential acquirer, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. News of the potential acquisition of the Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM giant…

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$35 million in VC later, anonymous app Secret is closing down

By Duncan Riley Apr 29, 2015

Anonymous messaging app Secret is closing down, despite having raised $35 million and a period of being praised as the next big thing. The app, originally founded in October 2013 as a way to secretly share…

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Twitter stock hammered after missing Q1 market expectations and revising down projections

By Duncan Riley Apr 29, 2015

Sunshine and lollipops were in short supply Tuesday at Twitter Inc., with the microblogging platform taking a hammering on the New York Stock Exchange after revealing disappointing first quarter figures, and revising its future…

Duncan Riley

Periscope & Meerkat users stream Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, when will HBO/ Showtime sue?

Report: Spotify raises $350 million on a $8 billion valuation

Food delivery marketplace Foodpanda raises $100 million Series E

LinkedIn shares plummet as Q1 financials revise down future projections

Adieu: Grooveshark shuts its doors as part of a legal settlement with the music industry

Circa news app on the market after it fails to raise a new round

Amazon acquires AWS EC2 spot market savings startup ClusterK

Report: Salesforce has hired bankers to field takeover offers

$35 million in VC later, anonymous app Secret is closing down

Twitter stock hammered after missing Q1 market expectations and revising down projections

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