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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Samsung beats earnings forecast on strong demand for mobile devices

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. beat analyst estimates for its first-quarter earnings on strong demand for its mobile devices. For the quarter ended March 31, Samsung reported revenue of KWN 65.39 trillion ($59 billion), up 18% from the same quarter of 2020 and a record for its first quarter. Net income shot up 46% from a year ...

After beating earnings forecasts, Apple warns of supply shortages

Apple Inc. beat market expectations today with its latest quarterly earnings report, but the company warned that it’s facing supply shortages in its current quarter. For its fiscal second quarter ended March 27, Apple reported revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54% year-over-year and quarterly earnings of $1.40 per share. Analysts had been predicting a profit of ...

New Salesforce Learning Paths brings personalized learning directly to employees

Salesforce.com Inc. today announced Salesforce Learning Paths, a service that brings personalized learning directly into the customer relationship management service to enable employees to learn in the flow of work when and where they need it. Workplace learning is said to be a proven driver of success for both employees and employers. According to Salesforce ...

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub raises $9M

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub Inc. announced today it has raised $9 million in new funding to build out its sensor and analytics-based real-time earthquake damage information suite. The Series A round was led by A/O PropTech and included Hannover Digital Investments, JLL Spark, Fusion Fund, Ubiquity Ventures, Promus Ventures, Bolt, Blackhorn Ventures, Maschmeyer Group Ventures and Team ...

Stripe acquires TaxJar to assist with sales tax compliance

Payment technology company Stripe Inc. today revealed it has acquired TaxJar, a startup that allows e-commerce sellers to manage sales tax, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, TaxJar pitches itself as the leading technology solution for busy e-commerce sellers to manage sales tax. Founded by e-commerce merchants, the company’s cloud platform allows e-commerce merchants ...

15Five snaps up employee engagement software firm Emplify for $50M

Cloud-based employee performance management company 15Five Inc. today announced it has acquired employee engagement software firm Emplify Inc. for $50 million. Founded in 2010, Emplify is designed to enable executives to ask for, analyze and act on employee feedback to transform data insights into human action. Emplify fuses survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement and transformation ...

Endpoint management startup Automox raises $110M to expand enterprise features

Endpoint management startup Automox Inc. revealed today that it has raised $110 million in new funding to expand the enterprise featurese of its platform. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners and included funds managed by Blackstone, Koch Disruptive Technologies and TechOperators. Founded in 2015, Automox provides a cloud-native, cross-platform endpoint management platform designed to ...

Musical instrument marketplace Reverb exposes 5.6M customer records via Elasticsearch

Musical instrument marketplace Reverb.com LLC has suffered a data breach, with details of 5.6 million users exposed online. First discovered and detailed April 23 by security researcher Bob Diachenko, the data breach involved an exposed Elasticsearch server that was exposed to all and sundry without any protection. The database includes full name, email address, phone number, ...

Customers warned to reset passwords following hack of password manager Passwordstate

Enterprise password manager Passwordstate from Australian company Click Studios (SA) Pty. Ltd. has been compromised, with customers warned to reset their passwords. The compromise involves a Passwordstate upgrade that went out to customers between April 20 and April 22. An unknown hacker is said to have compromised the in-place upgrade functionality for the software located ...

Security issue in Apple Airdrop allow attackers to steal personal information

A security issue in Apple Inc.’s AirDrop feature can allow an attacker to steal personal information from an Apple user. Detailed April 21 by security researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, the security issue was first discovered two years ago but despite their contacting Apple in May 2019, the issue still exists. Using ...