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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New 1Password ‘sign-in with’ browser extension delivers quicker logins

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password today announced a new “sign-in with” browser extension feature to assist users in signing in more quickly. Using the new extension, users can automatically save, store and autofill logins with third-party provider credentials – including those from Google LLC, Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Okta Inc. ...

New Accenture and AWS service optimizes business outcomes up to 50% faster

Accenture PLC and Amazon Web Services Inc. said they they’re teaming up to launch Velocity, a new service that optimizes business outcomes up to 50% faster by removing the complexity associated with building and operating enterprise-scale applications and estates in the cloud. Velocity allows clients to adopt Accenture and AWS innovations more quickly based on the ...

Rapid7 showcases new capabilities for cloud detection and response at AWS re:Invent

Cybersecurity technology provider Rapid7 Inc. today showcased new capabilities that simplify cloud detection, response and vulnerability assessment at AWS re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas. The new capabilities are designed to assist organizations across all industries that are migrating to the cloud to support innovation, scale and digital transformation. Rapid7 argues organizations can struggle to effectively secure their ...

That was quick: Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will leave in January

Bret Taylor is stepping down as a co-chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc. in January, ostensibly to return to his entrepreneurial roots, just a year after he was appointed to the role. Investors had assumed that the appointment of Taylor (pictured, left) to the role last year was the beginning of a long tenure as ...

Box hits $1B revenue run rate amid record operating profitability

File-sharing company Box Inc. reported its first $1 billion revenue run rate in its fiscal third-quarter earnings today amid record operating profitability. For its third quarter that ended Oct. 31, Box reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of 31 cents per share, up from 22 cents per share in the same quarter ...

Jamf AWS integration assists companies in elevating their security posture

Apple enterprise management firm Jamf Holding Corp. today announced a new integration with Amazon Web Services Inc. that helps companies elevate their security posture. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2022, the new Jamf AWS integration is pitched as increasing organization security through improving threat prevention measures and reducing the risk of data breaches. The integration does so while ...

Predatory loan apps found targeting victims in Google Play and Apple App Store

Researchers at cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. have discovered more than 300 loan apps that exhibit predatory behavior, such as exfiltrating excessive user data and harassing borrowers for payment in both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Found in Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Colombia and Mexico, the apps purportedly offer quick, fully digital loan approvals with ...

New AWS SimSpace Weaver offers worst-case scenario testing at scale

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a new compute service that runs real-time spatial simulations in the cloud at scale. Called AWS SimSpace Weaver, the new service allows organizations to run simulations that are “rare, dangerous or very expensive to test in the real world.” Described in one report as the ultimate real-life SimCity, SimSpace ...

By processing data in space, AWS goes where no cloud provider has gone before

Amazon Web Services Inc. has gone where no cloud provider has gone before: space. AWS providing details at its re:Invent conference today that it has successfully tested a suite of AWS computer and machine learning software on an orbiting satellite. The first-of-its-kind space experiment was conducted over the past 10 months and involved the use ...

CrowdStrike shares plunge on lower-than-expected revenue and outlook

Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. plunged in late trading after the cybersecurity company missed estimates for annual recurring revenue and outlook for its latest earnings. For its third quarter that ended Oct. 31, CrowdStrike reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $96.1 million, or 40 cents per share, compared with $41.1 million, or 17 ...