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

To the moon: Google reported to be in talks to invest in SpaceX

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. could be taking its goliath search engine to the moon and beyond, with a report today that it is in talks to invest in Elon Musk’s SpaceX on a valuation of $10 billion. The Information reported that the deal is …

#Want: LapExpand offers brilliant, portable multiple displays for laptops

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

If you use a laptop you know one basic limitation: screen size. Sure you can live with it but what if you could add one or two portable, lightweight foldable monitors to your laptop ,which you can easily deploy when you’re on …

ChangeTip adds Facebook support to Bitcoin tipping service

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

ChangeCoin Inc.’s tipping service ChangeTip has brought Bitcoin tipping to Facebook Inc. for the first time. The company announced that the extension into Facebook tipping was due to popular demand, and builds on their existing Twitter Inc. and reddit Inc. tipping services. …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 to the table in making the service legal. …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 they were having problems with the EgoPay API …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 defense strategy for Ulbricht, who is facing charges …

Obituary: Google Glass 2011-2015

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 smart eyewear. First prototyped by Google’s X lab …

Safer Bitcoin: Gem and expresscoin announce Bitcoin wallet partnership

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 extend to powering co-branded end-user wallets providing an …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 50.6 million unique viewers in November 2014, up …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

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 is among the most popular taxi-hailing apps in …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

To the moon: Google reported to be in talks to invest in SpaceX

#Want: LapExpand offers brilliant, portable multiple displays for laptops

ChangeTip adds Facebook support to Bitcoin tipping service

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

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