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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Intel sells Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek for $85M

Intel Corp. has sold its Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek Technology Corp., a subsidiary of Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. for $85 million. Enpirion was found in 2001 by a team of technology experts from Bell Laboratories with a focus on power management architecture, power semiconductor devices and high-frequency magnetic materials. According to ...

VMware enterprise blockchain platform now generally available

VMware today formally entered the blockchain business with the commercial launch of VMware Blockchain, a platform designed to allow enterprises to build networks and deploy decentralized applications. The new service, several years in the making, offers businesses an extensible and scalable enterprise-grade platform to unlock data silos and to free up data to flow security, ...

Amazon Web Services APIs can allegedly be exploited to steal user data

News of yet another company exposing its data to all and sundry on cloud storage is so normal now that you can pre-write the news and insert the name of the company. This time, however, Amazon Web Services Inc. itself allegedly allows hackers to get access to user data through its application programming interfaces. The claim came ...

In post-election rally, bitcoin surges to its highest price in three years

The price of bitcoin surged to its highest level in three years today in a rally that some are suggesting will surpass the run-up in 2017. The recent surge coincided with the U.S. presidential election, but bitcoin started to climb before that, trading at $11.406.06 on Oct. 17. Although bitcoin has not surpassed its record high of ...

Machine learning automation startup DataRobot raises $270M ahead of likely IPO

Machine learning automation startup DataRobot Inc. said today it has raised $270 million in new funding on a $2.7 billion valuation in what the company describes as “pre-IPO funding,” suggesting that it has plans to go public in the near future. The Series F round was led by Altimeter Capital and included T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Tiger Global, Silver Lake ...

Flashpoint acquires CRFT to expand its security-related lineup

Business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint today said it has acquired security automation provider CRFT Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, CRFT offers no-code automation for security teams of all sizes to automate everyday tasks without custom software development or outside consultants. The service is designed to assist security teams focus on strategic and proactive efforts ...

Microsoft Teams adds new apps and power tools for improved user experience

Microsoft Corp. today announced a new range of features for its popular Teams service that are designed to provide an enhanced user experience. Topping the list is support for 21 new Teams apps for meetings that integrate third-party support for external services and existing Microsoft services. The 21 new Teams apps for meetings include support for Asana Inc., ...

Palo Alto Networks shares hit record high on strong earnings

Shares in Palo Alto Networks Inc. hit a record high today after the company beat first-quarter earnings estimates. For the quarter ended Oct. 31, Palo Alto Networks reported revenue rose 23%, to $946 million, from a year ago. Adjusted earnings excluding share-based compensation expenses and other items came in at $1.62 a share versus $1.05 a share a year ...

Airbnb finally releases IPO details as it reports a quarterly profit

Airbnb Inc. today finally released details for its initial public offering a year after it first said that it was planning to go public in 2020 and three months after it confidentially filed for the listing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. With no surprise given the months of speculation, Airbnb reported that it had been hit hard ...

Data belonging to 27.7M Texas drivers stolen in latest case of unsecured storage

Data relating to some 27.7 million Texas drivers has been exposed online and stolen from an unsecured database belonging to insurance company Vertafore Inc. The databases were left online between March 11 and Aug. 1 and included names, dates of birth, addresses and vehicle registration histories. According to the company last week, the data was exposed when ...