Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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RIP: Facebook is closing Friendfeed April 9

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2015

Facebook Inc. has announced that it will close social network Friendfeed April 9th. Acquired by Facebook in 2009 for a rumored $50 million, the site offered a news feed style layout that allowed users…

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VC funded tech site Gigaom shuts after running out of money

By Duncan Riley Mar 9, 2015

Pioneering tech blog Gigaom today announced that it was ceasing trading due to an inability to pay its bills. Founded by former Forbes writer Om Malik in 2006, Gigaom was among the first wave of…

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News Corp acquires Indian information services group VCCircle

By Duncan Riley Mar 9, 2015

News Corporation has acquired Indian information services group Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd., the owner of the VCCircle Network. The VCCircle Network consists of a range of sites, all (as their name may suggest) providing…

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Poor form: Latest version of uTorrent sneakily installs miner for Bitcoin alternative Litecoin

By Duncan Riley Mar 8, 2015

BitTorrent Inc.’s popular torrent software uTorrent is under fire from users after it was discovered that the latest version secretly installs a cryptocurrency miner as part of the package. The secret miner, named Epic Scale,…

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Police arrest five people over HK Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin scam

By Duncan Riley Mar 6, 2015

Five people connected to disgraced Hong Kong-based Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin are reported to have been arrested Thursday. The South China Morning Post claims that the five arrested may not have been running the scam, but…

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Strange bedfellows: Google deal with Microsoft sees AngularJS 2 adopting TypeScript

By Duncan Riley Mar 6, 2015

In one of the more interesting meetings of minds in recent times, Google Inc., and Microsoft Corp. have announced that they are working together to merge two of their javascript technologies into the one…

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Search solutions startup Swiftype raises $13 million Series B

By Duncan Riley Mar 5, 2015

Search solutions startup Swiftype Inc. has raised $13 million Series B in a round from New Enterprise Associates. Based in San Francisco, Swiftype offers a hosted search solution that allows site owners to deliver customizable…

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Bitcoin conspiracies, millions stolen and threats of legal action: The EgoPay scam over one month on

By Duncan Riley Mar 5, 2015

It has been over one month since SiliconANGLE reported exclusively on the intricate web behind one of the biggest Bitcoin scams since Mt. Gox, the tale of Tadas Kasputis and his related Bitcoin companies, EgoPay, Virtex.com and PaymentBase.…

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SaaS Capital raises $58 million to fund software as a service companies

By Duncan Riley Mar 5, 2015

SaaS Capital has announced that it has closed its second fund with $58 million in limited partner commitments. SaaS Capital’s first fund, which closed in May 2012, raised $22.5 million in limited partner commitments and…

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The end of an era: EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind The Sims and Simcity

By Duncan Riley Mar 5, 2015

Eletronic Arts Inc. (EA) has closed Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind games including The Sims and Simcity. The news first came via Twitter when game designer Guillaume Pierre tweeted “Well it was a fun 12 years,…

Duncan Riley

VC funded tech site Gigaom shuts after running out of money

News Corp acquires Indian information services group VCCircle

Poor form: Latest version of uTorrent sneakily installs miner for Bitcoin alternative Litecoin

Police arrest five people over HK Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin scam

Strange bedfellows: Google deal with Microsoft sees AngularJS 2 adopting TypeScript

Search solutions startup Swiftype raises $13 million Series B

Bitcoin conspiracies, millions stolen and threats of legal action: The EgoPay scam over one month on

SaaS Capital raises $58 million to fund software as a service companies

The end of an era: EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind The Sims and Simcity

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