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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

MasterCard urges regulation of Bitcoin in Australia

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

MasterCard Inc. has set its sights on Bitcoin, telling the Australian Government to impose regulations against the anonymity of the digital currency. In a statement to the Australian Senate Economics References Committee’s inquiry into into digital currency, MasterCard argued that more must be …

Firefox wants in on iOS

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Mozilla Corporation has expressed interest in bringing its Firefox browser to the iOS ecosystem. Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale is reported to have made the disclosure to an audience at an internal Mozilla event, saying that “We need to be …

Cyber Monday spending up with big growth in mobile

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

IBM and comScore Inc. have released their annual reports on Cyber Monday, both stating that spending is up this year, with a big increase in mobile device ordering. The IBM study found that online sales on Cyber Monday grew 8.5 percent compared to 2013, …

Hacking Wall Street: group targets publicly traded companies

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Hacking has taken a new dimension, with a report claiming that a new group has been targeting companies for insider information to profit via market trading. FireEye, Inc. has released an intelligence report that details a financially motivated “threat group” that has …

Intel acquires identity management service PasswordBox

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has announced that it has acquired Montreal based identity management service PasswordBox Inc. The company, founded by Daniel Robichaud, had previously raised $8.2 million over two rounds, from investors including OMERS Ventures and Real Ventures. PasswordBox offers “an innovative free identity …

Study shows Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you think

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

University of Luxembourg researchers have published a paper that finds the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is not as anonymous as you think, and overcoming Bitcoin anonymity is neither hard nor expensive. The paper, presented to the Association of Computing Machinery conference by Alex Biryukov, Dmitry …

Brits invest $188m in quantum technology hubs

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Quantum technology is set for a boost in the U.K. with the Government investing  $188m (£120m) to set up four “Quantum Technology Hubs.” The hubs, located at Universities in Birmingham, Glasgow, Oxford and York, aim to explore the properties of quantum mechanics …

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