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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Healthcare cloud data solutions startup Redox raises $45M

Healthcare cloud data solutions startup Redox Inc. announced today it has raised $45 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and hire more people. The Series D round was led by Adams Street Partners and included Avenir, Battery Ventures, .406 Ventures and RRE Ventures. Founded in 2014, Redox offers a full-service health data integration platform to ...

GameStop shares surge in a repeat of the Reddit-powered pump in January

Shares in GameStop Corp. surged today as users of Reddit Inc.’s r/WallStreetBets forum pumped the stock again, a near-repeat of a similar pump in January. GameStop shares, which opened regular trading at $46.05, well down from a high of $347.51 Jan. 27, rose 104% to close regular trading at $91.71. The price rise didn’t stop ...

Amazon’s Lookout for Vision spots defects and anomalies in visual representations

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a cloud service that uses machine learning to spot defects and anomalies in visual representation using computer vision. Designed with manufacturing companies in mind, the service can identify differences in images of objects at large scale, delivering the ability to identify ...

AI-powered industrial robotics startup Symbio Robotics launches with $20M round

Artificial intelligence-powered industrial robotics startup Symbio Robotics Inc. today officially launched with an announcement that it has raised $30 million. The funding round was led by ACMECapital and included Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse Ventures and The House Fund. Founded in 2014, Symbio developers robotic systems and software for advanced manufacturing that use AI to modernize industrial manufacturing. The company’s ...

Elon Musk tweet causes price of bitcoin to plunge

Anyone who follows cryptocurrency markets will know that you can never accuse them of being boring, never more true than in the last few days, as the price of bitcoin embarked on yet another roller-coaster ride — with Elon Musk at the center of the story. Bitcoin, which first broke through $50,000 Feb. 16 after ...

Microsoft users targeted by fake FedEx and DHL emails

Users of Microsoft Corp. email services are being targeted by a new phishing scam that sends fake messages pretending to be from FedEx Corp. and DHL International GmbH. Detailed today by security researchers from Armorblox Inc., the phishing attack is known to have targeted at least 10,000 Microsoft email users with fake links that, if followed, ...

iFinex agrees to pay $18.5M to settle New York Tether lawsuit

iFinex Inc., the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the Tether stablecoin, has settled a long-running lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General’s office in April 2019. The lawsuit claimed that Bitfinex and Tether engaged in “undisclosed, conflicted transactions to cover Bitfinex’s losses by transferring money out of Tether reserve funds.” The amount claimed to ...

Shares in Square plummet after company discloses bitcoin investment

Shares in Square Inc. plummeted in after-hours trading after the financial services provider disclosed in its quarterly earnings report that it had purchased bitcoin at a time the cryptocurrency is declining in price. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Square reported revenue jumped 141% from a year ago, to $3.16 billion, in the quarter ended ...

Sophos partners with Qualcomm to provide endpoint protection to Snapdragon compute platforms

Sophos Group plc today announced a partnership with Qualcomm Inc. to provide its Intercept X endpoint protection to 5G personal computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms. Qualcomm’s main 8cv compute platform, unveiled in December 2018, offers a seven-nanometer central processing unit designed for Windows 10 PCs. The platform enables 5G connectivity built on smartphone ...

Israeli IT automation platform startup Atera raises $25M

Israeli information technology automation platform startup Atera Networks Ltd. announced today it has raised $25 million in new funding led by K1 Investment Management to expand research and development, widen its geographic footprint and accelerate its market expansion efforts. Founded in 2011, Atera offers an all-in-one platform that combines remote monitoring and management with help desk, reporting ...