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

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SurrealDB’s Surreal Cloud debuts on AWS S3 for scalable multimodel database as a service

Open-source database startup SurrealDB Inc. today announced the launch of Surreal Cloud, a database-as-a-service offering that gives enterprises access to a fully managed solution. It’s for developers who want to leverage the power and flexibility of SurrealDB without the complexities of managing infrastructure. Available on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 platform, Surreal Cloud integrates with the Surrealist graphical ...

Cloud software firm ServiceTitan seeks to raise up to $502M in initial public offering

Cloud business software provider ServiceTitan Inc. today announced the launch of its initial public offering, with the company seeking to raise up to $502 million in an offering of 8.8 million shares priced between $52 and $57 each. Founded in 2012, ServiceTitan provides a cloud-based platform tailored to the needs of service businesses such as ...

Okta shares surge over 15% on strong revenue and earnings beats

Shares in Okta Inc. were up over 15% in late trading today after the identity and access management company reported strong beats on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2025 third quarter. For the quarter that ended on Oct. 31, Okta reported adjusted earnings per share of 67 cents, up from 44 cents in the ...

Salesforce reports mixed third-quarter results, but stock jumps on upbeat forecast

Shares in Salesforce Inc. rose more than 9% in after-hours trading today after the cloud-based software company impressed investors with an upbeat outlook despite reporting mixed results in its fiscal 2025 third quarter. For the quarter that ended on Oct. 31, Salesforce reported adjusted earnings of $2.41, up from $2.11 in the same quarter of ...

PagerDuty teams up with AWS to enhance incident management with generative AI integrations

Analytics and observability firm PagerDuty Inc. today announced new generative artificial intelligence and automation features for its PagerDuty Advance platform, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc. Unveiled at the annual AWS re:Invent conference by PagerDuty Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Tejada (pictured below) during AWS CEO Matt Garman’s keynote, the collaboration combines the abilities ...

AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB enhancements for multi-region workloads

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced several new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, designed to support the most demanding workloads that need to be operated across multiple regions. The new capabilities, debuted at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, are focused on supporting multi-region workloads by delivering strong consistency, low latency and ...

AWS expands Amazon S3 with features to support Apache Iceberg and metadata management

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its re:Invent conference today significant updates to its Amazon Simple Storage Service that are designed to make S3 the first cloud object store with fully managed support for Apache Iceberg. The move to S3 supporting Apache Iceberg will deliver faster analytics and make it easier to store and manage ...

New Thales solution integrates Imperva technologies to enhance data risk management

Thales SA today announced the launch of Data Risk Intelligence, a new Imperva Data Security Fabric solution that proactively addresses the risk of data wherever it resides. The new solution unites the risk and threat identification capabilities of the Imperva Data Security Fabric with the data protection capability of the Thales CipherTurst Data Security Platform, ...

Rubrik expands cybersecurity and AI solutions with new AWS and Amazon Bedrock capabilities

Data security software provider Rubrik Inc. today announced expanded cybersecurity and artificial intelligence capabilities as well as new solutions for Amazon Web Services Inc. and Amazon Bedrock. The announcements, made at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference, are focused on boosting cyber resilience and enabling advanced AI capabilities for enterprise customers. The company unveiled updates to its cybersecurity ...

Who is David Mayer? ChatGPT faces scrutiny over censorship of public figures

Who is David Mayer? A month after OpenAI added a search engine to its highly popular ChatGPT service, users are unable to get answers to anything relating to David Mayer in a mystery that swept the internet over the last week. Yet at the same time, Google LLC does not have the same problem. David ...