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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cruise operator Carnival discloses its third data breach since 2019

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

The world’s largest cruise operator Carnival Corp. & plc today disclosed a new data breach involving the theft of personal data, its third data breach in just over two years. The latest data breach was detected on March 19. The breach involved …

Defense tech startup Anduril raises $450M to turn ‘warfighters into invincible technomancers’

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. said today that it has raised $450 million in new funding to “turn allied warfighters into invincible technomancers.” Serial entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil led the Series D round. Other investors included Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, …

Fintech startup Wise to go public via direct listing in the UK

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Fintech startup Wise today announced plans to go public via a direct listing, a first by a tech company on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 2011 as Transferwise Ltd. by former Skype employees Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann (pictured), the company was …

Ocean and air freight benchmarking startup Xeneta raises $28.5M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Ocean and airfreight benchmarking and market intelligence platform startup Xeneta AS today revealed it has raised $28.5 million in new funding to scale up operations, develop commercial and technical partner channels, expand into new regions and build out its in-house data analyst team. Lugard …

1B+ CVS Health customer records exposed on unsecured cloud database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

More than 1 billion customer records belonging to CVS Health Corp. have been found exposed online in the latest tale of unsecured cloud data storage. Discovered and publicized today by security researcher Jeremiah Flower working for WebsitePlanet, the nonpassword-protected database had no form …

Commercial Apache Kafka startup Confluent to raise up to $759M in its IPO

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Commercial Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today set the terms of its initial public offering, seeking to raise up to $759 million on a potential $8.33 billion valuation. Confluent announced on April 23 that it had confidentially filed to go public. Under …

AI-powered customer relationship startup Introhive raises $100M round

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence-powered customer relationship management startup Introhive Services Inc. announced today it has raised $100 million in new funding to do strategic acquisitions and expand its global footprint. PSG led the Series C round. Other investors included Bank of America Securities, the Business Development …

Home management platform provider Thumbtack raises $275M on $3.2B valuation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Home management platform provider Thumbtack Inc. today revealed it has raised $275 million in a new late-stage round of funding. Qatar Investment Authority led the Series G round. Other investors included Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, G Squared, Baillie Gifford, CapitalG (Alphabet), Founders Circle …

Social planning app startup IRL raises $170M on unicorn valuation of $1.17B

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Social planning application startup IRL announced today it has raised $170 million in new funding to expand its user base internationally. The Series C round in IRL, which stands for “in real life,” was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other investors included …

UK investigation will probe Apple’s and Google’s dominance in mobile ecosystems

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

The United Kingdom’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple Inc.’s and Google Inc.’s dominance in mobile ecosystems and whether that market power harms users and other businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority will be digging into what it describes as …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cruise operator Carnival discloses its third data breach since 2019

Defense tech startup Anduril raises $450M to turn ‘warfighters into invincible technomancers’

Fintech startup Wise to go public via direct listing in the UK

Ocean and air freight benchmarking startup Xeneta raises $28.5M

1B+ CVS Health customer records exposed on unsecured cloud database

Commercial Apache Kafka startup Confluent to raise up to $759M in its IPO

AI-powered customer relationship startup Introhive raises $100M round

Home management platform provider Thumbtack raises $275M on $3.2B valuation

Social planning app startup IRL raises $170M on unicorn valuation of $1.17B

UK investigation will probe Apple’s and Google’s dominance in mobile ecosystems

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