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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Data fabric solutions startup Promethium raises $26M to scale up customer growth

Data fabric solutions startup Promethium Inc. announced today that it has raised $26 million in new funding to scale up new customer growth with additional hiring and build out its product. Insight Partners led the Series A round, with 406 Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners also participating. Including the new funding, Promethium has raised $34.5 million to date. Founded in ...

Apple reportedly acquires UK startup AI Music

Apple Inc. has reportedly acquired AI Music, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to create tailor-made music. As is typical with companies that Apple acquires, there is no official confirmation or denial of the acquisition. Bloomberg reported today that the deal was complete in recent weeks and the company had about two dozen employees before the deal. ...

Nvidia’s $66B acquisition of Arm called off on regulatory concerns

Updated: Nvidia Corp.’s $66 billion deal to acquire Arm Ltd. has been called off, nixed by regulatory concerns. The companies, along with Arm owner SoftBank Group Corp., announced the collapse of the deal late Monday night. Arm said it will now prepare for an initial public offering instead within the fiscal year ending in March ...

Washington state Department of Licensing hit by a potential data breach

The Washington state Department of Licensing has disclosed a potential data breach that may have exposed the details of about 250,000 professional licenses. The department is fairly vague on what was involved, saying only in a statement that it became aware of suspicious activity involving professional and occupational license data during the week of Jan. ...

Cyberattack compromises emails at News Corp. outlets

A cyberattack has struck media company News Corp., compromising the emails of journalists. The attack was detected on Jan. 20 and affected News Corp. publications and business units, including The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones, the New York Post, News U.K. and News Corp. headquarters. The form of the attack was ...

DHS establishes Cyber Safety Review Board to elevate cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today announced the establishment of the Cyber Safety Review Board that will bring together government and industry leaders to elevate cybersecurity. The establishment of the CSRB is the result of a Biden Administration executive order in May that ordered that the board be created. Robert Silvers, DHS Under Secretary ...

Trust Machines raises $150M to expand bitcoin as a web3 platform

Blockchain startup Trust Machines launched out of stealth mode today with $150 million in funding to expand bitcoin as a web3 platform. Venture capital firms participating in the round include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures. Web3 is the name given to decentralized network applications that run on blockchains, as opposed to Web 2.0, ...

Wild ride: Snap shares surge on strong earnings and first-ever quarterly net profit

Shares in Snap Inc. surged in after-hours trading today after the company smashed estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth in its fourth-quarter earnings report and reported its first-ever quarterly net profit. The stock jump of nearly 60% in extended trading followed a decline of 24% in the regular session as investors assumed Snap might ...

Fortinet and Check Point shares rise on better-than-expected earnings

Shares in cybersecurity firms Fortinet Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. rose after the companies reported better-than-expected quarterly results. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Fortinet reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $205.8 million, or $1.23 per share, up from $1.06 per share a year ago. Revenue in the quarter ...

Keeper Security acquires Apache Guacamole inventor Glyptodon

Cybersecurity software startup Keeper Security Inc. today said it has acquired remote access gateway company Glyptodon Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, Glyptodon is the company that invented and maintains Apache Guacamole, the free and open-source, cross-platform remote access desktop gateway. In 2018, the company launched Glyptodon Enterprise, a platform designed to allow DevOps and information technology ...