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

Uber and Lyft ordered by judge to classify drivers in California as employees

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A judge in California ruled today that Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. must classify their California-based drivers as employees to comply with state law. California Assembly Bill 5, signed into law Sept. 18 and in effect since January, forces companies to …

Facebook forms new group to oversee payments and related financial efforts

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today said it has formed a new product group to oversee its payments and related financial efforts. It’s called F2 internally, short for Facebook Financial. The group, led by David Marcus (pictured), who also leads Facebook’s cryptocurrency efforts, will oversee all payments …

Reddit hacked and defaced with pro-Trump messages in English and Chinese

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Reddit Inc. is the latest company to be hacked, with some 70 groups on the site defaced with pro-Donald Trump messages. The hack occurred on Friday and involved those behind the attack accessing accounts belonging to moderators of popular subreddits with millions …

Twitter shows interest in acquisition as TikTok plans to sue over ban

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. is reportedly the latest company interested in acquiring Chinese-owned social video app TikTok, just as app owner ByteDance Ltd. claims it will sue the Trump administration this week over a ban. The saga of TikTok, highly popular among young online users, …

Capital One agrees to $80M fine, cybersecurity consent order for 2019 data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Capital One Financial Corp. today agreed to pay an $80 million fine and enter into a consent order to boost its cybersecurity in a settlement that follows the theft of more than 100 million customer records disclosed in July 2019. The settlement with …

Uber delivers mixed earnings as Eats business surges past ride-hailing service

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in Uber Technologies Inc. dipped in after-hours trading today after the company delivered mixed second-quarter earnings results as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hurt its business. For the quarter ended June 30, Uber reported overall gross bookings of $10.2 billion, down …

Intel investigating data breach following online release of 20GB of internal data

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. is investigating a data breach that has seen some 20 gigabytes of internal company data released online with a promise of more to come. The data was released by Till Kottman, a Swiss engineer going by the name of @deletescape …

Bitfinex offers reward of up to $400M for return of bitcoin stolen in 2016 hack

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is offering a reward of up to $400 million for the return of bitcoin stolen from the exchange in a hack in 2016. The hack involved the theft of 119,756 bitcoin worth $65.6 million at the time but today …

Former Uber exec Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months for trade secret theft

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Uber Technologies Inc.’s autonomous vehicle unit, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in March to one count of stealing trade secrets from Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car company Waymo LLC. Levandowski will …

Twilio shares drop on weak guidance despite strong earnings

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in cloud communications services provider Twilio Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today on weaker-than-expected guidance despite the company smashing analysts’ predictions in the second quarter. For the quarter ended June 30, Twilio reported revenue of $400.8 million, up 46% over the same quarter …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Uber and Lyft ordered by judge to classify drivers in California as employees

Facebook forms new group to oversee payments and related financial efforts

Reddit hacked and defaced with pro-Trump messages in English and Chinese

Capital One agrees to $80M fine, cybersecurity consent order for 2019 data breach

Uber delivers mixed earnings as Eats business surges past ride-hailing service

Intel investigating data breach following online release of 20GB of internal data

Bitfinex offers reward of up to $400M for return of bitcoin stolen in 2016 hack

Former Uber exec Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months for trade secret theft

Twilio shares drop on weak guidance despite strong earnings

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