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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SaaS customer relations management startup Freshworks files for IPO

Software-as-a-service customer relations management startup Freshworks Inc. filed its paperwork late Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The company is seeking to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and is looking to raise $100 million through the sale of Class A stock. Founded in 2010, Freshworks was ...

Report: iPhone 13 could support LEO satellite communications connectivity

Flagship smartphones often do not have an awful lot of differentiation in features, but if the latest report for the iPhone 13 turns out to be true, Apple Inc. could move ahead of its rivals. According to famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next iPhone could support low-Earth orbit satellite communication connectivity. Supporting the feature ...

Vulnerabilities in F5 Networks software opens the door to hackers

Vulnerabilities in software from network traffic management and security firm F5 Networks Inc. could allow attackers to exploit F5 customers and steal data. The vulnerabilities, most patched in new software updates, were disclosed by F5 on Wednesday. The 29 vulnerabilities run a gauntlet of issues, with the highest having a Common Vulnerability Scoring System score ...

Automated hiring platform startup Workstream raises $48M

Automated hiring platform startup Workstream Technologies Inc. announced today it has raised $48 million in new funding to invest in growth and product development. BOND and Coatue led the Series B round. Other investors included Founders Fund and a range of individual inventors, including Eric Yuan, chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications Inc., and Tony ...

Vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB may have exposed customer data to hackers

Microsoft Corp. has warned cloud customers that hackers may have potentially accessed their data via an exploitable vulnerability in its Azure cloud service. Reuters first reported the news today, but the discovery of the vulnerability came from researchers at Wiz Inc. The vulnerability is in Microsoft Azure’s Cosmos DB product and isn’t that hard to ...

White House holds summit to discuss national cybersecurity strategy

U.S. President Joe Biden held a summit meeting at the White House today with leaders from technology, financial services and energy companies to discuss national cybersecurity strategy amid increasing levels of major cyberattacks. Present at the meeting were a range of chief executive officers from well know companies. Attendees from tech companies included Apple Inc.’s ...

Elastic surprises investors with unexpected profit

Enterprise search company Elastic NV surprised investors with its latest earnings report today, posting an unexpected profit thanks to strong revenue growth. For the quarter ended July 31, Elastic reported revenue jumped 50% from a year ago, to $193.1 million. It also reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $7.2 million or ...

Salesforce shares rise on strong earnings and higher forecast

Shares in Saleforce.com Inc. rose in after-hours trading today after the company beat analyst expectations and boosted its forecast for the full fiscal year. For the quarter ending July 31, Salesforce reported total revenue of $6.34 billion, up 23% year-over-year, the first time the company has surpassed $6 billion in quarterly revenue. Profit before costs ...

NSO Pegasus software used to spy on activists through iOS vulnerability

A new report claims that software from Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. was used by the government of Bahrain to spy on various people by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple Inc.’s iOS mobile operating software. The report, from Citizen Lab, said Bahrain used NSO software between June 2020 and February 2021 to spy on ...

Owlchemy founders launch “absurd:joy,” a remote collaboration startup with $5.35M in funding

Founders and previous staff of Owlchemy Labs Inc., a virtual reality games studio Google LLC acquired in 2017, have launched a new company called absurd:joy Inc. and announced $5.35 million in funding. March Gaming led the seed funding round. Other investors include Dune Ventures, WXR Fund, Gaingels, David Helgason and others. With much of the world is still ...