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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Uber to require drivers and riders to wear facemasks as it designs technology to enforce it

Uber Technologies Inc. is set to require drivers and riders to wear a facemask and is designing technology to detect that drivers are doing so. The new policy will be rolled out in the U.S. and certain other countries, according to a report today byCNN Business. The move comes as Uber restarts its ride-hailing business in territories ...

New Android EventBot malware steals data from financial applications

A new form of Android mobile malware has been spotted in the wild that steals user data from financial applications. Dubbed “EventBot” by security researchers at Cybereason Inc. who wrote about it today, the new malware first emerged in March and is described as a mobile banking Trojan and infostealer. The malware abuses Android’s accessibility to ...

Smartphone shipments hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has hit smartphone sales hard, causing the largest-ever recorded drop in shipments in the first quarter of 2020. According to a report released by International Data Corp., smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% in the first quarter from the same quarter of 2019. Nearly 276 million smartphones were sold in the quarter. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. continues to ...

Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for second blockchain and cryptocurrency fund

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said today it has raised $515 million for a second fund to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency. The venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen (pictured) and Ben Horowitz in 2009, has been a prolific and highly successful VC firm since it was established in 2009. Andreessen Horowitz’s investments include ...

Employee data stolen in latest hack of edtech company Chegg

Education technology company Chegg Inc. has been hacked for the third time since 2018 with employee data stolen. The latest hack involved the theft of some 700 employee records and included names and Social Security numbers, according to a report in TechCrunch. How the hack took place was not shared, but Chegg said it had hired a forensic ...

Americans skeptical of COVID-19 tracking apps as researchers raise security concerns

A new poll has found that more than half of Americans are either unwilling or unable to use COVID-19 illness tracing applications as researchers warn that the apps present a security risk. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released today found that of the 82% of Americans who have smartphones, willingness to use contact tracking apps ...

Augmented reality startup Mojo Vision raises $51M to develop its smart contact lens

Augmented reality startup Mojo Vision Inc. revealed today that it has raised $51 million in new funding to develop its smart contact lens. The Series B-1 round was led by New Enterprise Associates and included Gradient Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Struck Capital, Dolby Family Ventures, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Fusion Fund, Intellectus Partners, KDDI ...

TikTok passes 2B downloads amid surging use during COVID-19 pandemic

Social video app TikTok has continues to go from strength to strength, as an estimate was released today that its app has been downloaded 2 billion times. The number comes today from analytics firm Sensor Tower Inc. and includes downloads from both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Underlying just how quickly TikTok continues to ...

Google Meet now available for free to all amid coronavirus pandemic

Updated: Google LLC early today made its Google Meet video conferencing service free for all users amid a global surge in use during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Google Meet, previously called Google Hangouts, was available only as part of G Suite. Available for free via meet.google.com and Google Meet mobile apps, it now offers free ...

Rapid7 acquires cybersecurity firm DivvyCloud for $145M

Security operations firm Rapid7 Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm DivvyCloud Corp. for $145 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2013, DivvyCloud offers a cybersecurity automation platform for the protection of cloud and container environments. The company’s platform protects against misconfigurations, policy violations, threats and identity and access management issues. DivvyCloud’s ...