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

Report: CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir, raising $500m Series I on $20b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. is said to be raising $500 million Series I on a $20 billion valuation. According to reports, the new round of funding apparently reflects investors’ eagerness to gain access to a startup seen as one …

Bad idea: why Google shouldn’t be involved in removing revenge porn on its own volition

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H Jackson, famed jurist and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg …

They’re back: Foursquare returns mayorships to its Swarm geolocation check-in app

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Foursquare, Inc. announced Monday that mayorships are back in their geolocation check-in app Swarm. The feature, one of the original features of Foursquare before it pivoted into a places to visit recommendation app, allowed users who checked into places to earn “mayorships” …

Docker, CoreOS declare peace in the container wars and join the Open Container Project

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The combatants in the “container wars” have declared peace with an announcement Monday that they are joining forces to create the Open Container Project (OCP), chartered to establish common standards for software containers. The project sees rival container providers CoreOS, Inc. and …

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Indian cryptocurrency startup Trestor has completed a successful trial of its digital currency Trest in the African nation of Cameroon, demonstrating how altcoin can play a role within the third world. The pilot program included the Cameroon government and Socapssi, an organization …

Google accused of spying on users with audio listener bundled with Chromium

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Is Google spying on what you are saying via your computer’s microphone? They well could be if you use Chromium, and that’s the crux a new accusation from Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Pirate Party. Falkvinge claims in a blog post …

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music and wins, but shows herself up as a hypocrite in the process

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Shakespeare, it isn’t, but whether you’re a fan of the music of Taylor Swift or not, no one can argue with the fact that she has become highly successful. With that success has come power, but how …

Bitcoin as a solution for Greece during the current crisis: what you need to know

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Unless you ignore news reports, you’d know that Greece is in a spot of bother at the moment, and may default on its sovereign debt. Quite a few sites have suggested that Bitcoin could, or should be the next currency of Greece …

Moderated insanity: Fitbit shares close up 48% on their first day of trading

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Fitness tracking maker Fitbit, Inc. went public Thursday to a positive response from Wall Street, closing its first day of trading up 48.4 percent at $29.68 from its original initial public offering price of $20 per share. According to reports, shares peaked …

Twitter preparing its own curated news service under the running name of “Project Lightning”

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A general meme around Twitter, Inc.’s microblogging come messaging service is that it’s difficult to discover or follow events of note; of course if you’re a regular Twitter user it’s not even remotely hard, but it’s apparently a big enough problem that …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir, raising $500m Series I on $20b valuation

Bad idea: why Google shouldn’t be involved in removing revenge porn on its own volition

They’re back: Foursquare returns mayorships to its Swarm geolocation check-in app

Docker, CoreOS declare peace in the container wars and join the Open Container Project

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

Google accused of spying on users with audio listener bundled with Chromium

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music and wins, but shows herself up as a hypocrite in the process

Bitcoin as a solution for Greece during the current crisis: what you need to know

Moderated insanity: Fitbit shares close up 48% on their first day of trading

Twitter preparing its own curated news service under the running name of “Project Lightning”

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