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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Digital workflow management startup Integral raises $6.9M

Digital workflow management startup Integral announced today that it has raised $6.9 million in new funding to protect sensitive health data and further develop its automated expert certification software. Founded in 2020 as Promeed Inc., Integral offers a platform that streamlines dataset creation by automating the de-identification and compliance certification process. Geared toward the medical and healthcare industry, ...

Patient dies after Cruise vehicles allegedly block ambulance in San Francisco

Two autonomous vehicles belonging to Cruise LLC, a unit of General Motors Co., are alleged to have delayed an ambulance in San Francisco on Aug. 14, with the patient later dying in hospital. The incident, which Cruise disputes, allegedly involved two Cruise autonomous vehicles that were stopped in two right-hand lanes on a four-lane, one-way street ...

Subscription customer growth prompts Elastic share surge in late trading

Shares in Elastic N.V. surged by over 14% in late trading after the enterprise-grade search software company today reported strong beats across the board in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its fiscal first quarter that ended July 31, Elastic reported adjusted earnings per share of 25 cents, up from a loss of 15 cents per ...

Cyber sunny: SentinelOne shares rise as cybersecurity company tops forecast

Shares in SentinelOne Inc. rose in after-hours trading today after the cybersecurity company topped expectations in its most recent quarter. For the quarter that ended July 31, SentinelOne reported an adjusted loss eight cents per share, up from a loss of 20 cents per share in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of ...

MongoDB smashes earnings forecast and outlook as new AI-powered features take off

MongoDB Inc. surprised investors and analysts today by smashing quarterly earnings and revenue forecasts as well as providing a better outlook for its current quarter. For its second quarter ended July 31, MongoDB reported adjusted earnings per share of 93 cents, up from a loss of 23 cents per share in the same quarter of ...

Broadcom shares fall on lower-than-expected outlook

Shares in Broadcom Inc. fell over 4% in late trading today after the semiconductor maker forecast a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest earnings report. For its third quarter ended July 30, Broadcom reported adjusted earnings per share of $10.53, up from $9.73 in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of $8.876 billion, up 5% year-over-year. ...

CrowdStrike and Okta shares rise on solid earnings and revenue beats

Shares in Okta Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. rose in late trading today after both companies reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue in their most recent quarters. For its third quarter that ended July 31, CrowdStrike reported adjusted earnings of $180 million, or 74 cents per share, up from $85.9 million, or 36 cents per share, ...

Semperis adds support for Okta to its security assessment tool

Enterprise identity protection and cyber resilience startup Semperis Ltd. today announced the introduction of Okta Inc. security vulnerability scanning in its security assessment tool Purple Knight. The added support for Okta is the first time Semperis has expanded support outside of the Microsoft Corp. identity platforms of Active Directory and Entra ID. The new support ...

Checkmarx warns of unknown threat actor targeting developers through NPM packages

Researchers at application security testing firm Checkmarx Ltd. today detailed a previously unknown threat actor leveraging NPM packages to target developers to steal source code and secrets. The threat actor, believed to have been active since 2021 but undetected until now, has been publishing malicious NPM packages. The malicious packages were designed with the purpose of exfiltrating sensitive data ...

Mandiant warns hackers are still targeting Barracuda Email Security Gateway devices

Researchers at Google LLC-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant today warned that alleged Chinese attackers have and are continuing to target a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Inc. devices successfully. The vulnerability in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway, tracked as CVE-2023-2868, was patched in May. After the release of the patch, Mandiant and Barracuda did not identify evidence that any ...