Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Bread and circuses: Uber promises jobs, environmental benefits if the EU will play nicely with it

By Duncan Riley Jan 18, 2015

Uber Inc. has ramped up the sales pitch in Europe, with CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick telling an audience at the DLD conference Sunday that the company could deliver a range of benefits if Governments came…

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Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay ceases trading, founders may have stolen millions

By Duncan Riley Jan 16, 2015

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay has ceased trading, with unconfirmed reports that the founders of the company may have stolen millions in funds from clients. Problems at EgoPay surfaced late December when merchants started reporting that…

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Ross Ulbricht lawyer claims Mt Gox’s Mark Karpeles is Dread Pirate Roberts at Silk Road trial

By Duncan Riley Jan 16, 2015

Lawyers representing alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht have accused disgraced former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles of being Dread Pirate Roberts, the operator and owner of Silk Road. As we reported January 13th, the…

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Obituary: Google Glass 2011-2015

By Duncan Riley Jan 15, 2015

Google Glass. Born 2011 at Google X Lab, Mountain View, California. Died: January 15th, 2015 Mountain View, California. Glassholes across the world today mourned the passing of Google Glass, Google Inc.’s failed attempt at wearable…

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Safer Bitcoin: Gem and expresscoin announce Bitcoin wallet partnership

By Duncan Riley Jan 15, 2015

Bitcoin security platform provider Gem has announced a new partnership with expresscoin Inc. that will see Gem’s API wallet made available to expresscoin users. The API wallet will power internal accounts and operations and eventually…

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MySpace traffic up 575% to 50.6m uniques in November. Also MySpace still exists

By Duncan Riley Jan 15, 2015

Former social network turned social music sharing service MySpace appears to be Lazarus rising in 2015 with news that traffic to the site is booming. According to the Wall Street Journal Myspace traffic hit…

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Chinese taxi hailing app KuaiDi Dache takes $600M Series D from Alibaba, Softbank

By Duncan Riley Jan 15, 2015

Chinese taxi-hailing app KuaiDi Dache (Travice Inc.) has raised $600 million Series D in a round that included Asian tech giants SoftBank Internet and Media Inc., and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Launched in 2012, KuaiDi Dache…

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2020 vision: Google wants to partner with car makers on self driving tech

By Duncan Riley Jan 14, 2015

Google Inc. is reported to be in talks with a range of major car manufacturers to bring its self-driving car technology to the mainstream by 2020. Automakers in talks with Google include General Motors Co, Ford…

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Trouble in the Bitcoin mines: CoinTerra sued for not paying its bills

By Duncan Riley Jan 14, 2015

Bitcoin mining company CoinTerra Inc. is in a spot of bother today with news that it is being sued by a Utah data center operator for breach of contract and failure to pay $1.4…

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Nyet! Russia bans Bitcoin websites, may ban Bitcoin outright

By Duncan Riley Jan 14, 2015

Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to at least seven Bitcoin related websites Tuesday on the grounds that the currency “contributes to the growth of the shadow economy.” ITAR Tass reported that Roskomnadzor claims…

Duncan Riley

Bread and circuses: Uber promises jobs, environmental benefits if the EU will play nicely with it

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay ceases trading, founders may have stolen millions

Ross Ulbricht lawyer claims Mt Gox’s Mark Karpeles is Dread Pirate Roberts at Silk Road trial

Obituary: Google Glass 2011-2015

Safer Bitcoin: Gem and expresscoin announce Bitcoin wallet partnership

MySpace traffic up 575% to 50.6m uniques in November. Also MySpace still exists

Chinese taxi hailing app KuaiDi Dache takes $600M Series D from Alibaba, Softbank

2020 vision: Google wants to partner with car makers on self driving tech

Trouble in the Bitcoin mines: CoinTerra sued for not paying its bills

Nyet! Russia bans Bitcoin websites, may ban Bitcoin outright

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