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

Facebook discontinues low-end Oculus Go virtual reality headset

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today announced it’s discontinuing the development and sale of its Oculus Go virtual reality headset just two years after it launched. Announced in October 2017, Oculus Go was Facebook’s first standalone VR headset — standalone in that it didn’t need …

Google Cloud scales up Kubernetes Engine to 15,000 nodes for Bayer Crop Science

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A new case study published today by Google Cloud shows how rapidly the tech giant’s cloud unit, in particular its Google Kubernetes Engine, can be rapidly scaled up to meet intense data processing needs. The case involves Bayer Crop Science data scientists …

269GB of data stolen from US police departments published after ‘BlueLeaks’ hack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Data stolen from hundreds of police departments across the U.S. have been published online in a hack dubbed “BlueLeaks.” The 269 gigabytes of data was published online by a group calling itself Distributed Denial of Secrets and includes hundreds of thousands of …

Microsoft acquires industrial cybersecurity startup CyberX for $165M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has acquired industrial cybersecurity startup CyberX Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Various reports today suggest that the acquisition price was $165 million, following initial reports of the deal in May. Founded in 2013, CyberX offers an industrial cybersecurity platform built by former military cybersecurity experts …

Facebook acquires VR games studio Ready at Dawn to enhance Oculus

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today said it has acquired virtual reality games developer Ready At Dawn Studios LLC for an undisclosed price to enhance its Oculus VR gaming division. Founded in 2003, Ready at Dawn initially started as a regular games studio before moving …

ServiceNow to acquire configuration data management startup Sweagle

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

ServiceNow Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire configuration data management startup Sweagle NV for an undisclosed price. Founded in Belgium in 2017 with offices in Brussels, Paris, London and New York City, Sweagle offers configuration data management on a software-as-a-service …

Arm-based Macs, new HomePod: Here’s what to expect from Apple’s online-only WWDC

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. kicks off its first online-only Worldwide Developers Conference at 10 a.m. PDT Monday with announcements expected across a wide range of Apple products including hardware and software. The shift to being online-only comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic with many companies …

Veeam updates Availability Orchestrator and adds a new disaster recovery pack

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Backup solutions and cloud data management firm Veeam Software Corp. today announced a number of new products designed to deliver cost savings to enterprise users. Launched today during VeeamON 2020, this year exclusively online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced …

Facebook acquires crowdsourced street-level imagery startup Mapillary

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has acquired Mapillary AB, a Swedish startup that takes street-level imagery for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2013, Mapillary pitches itself as a sort of Google Maps competitor in that it offers street-level imagery such as Google Maps does but …

Telos launches EOS.IO Ethereum Virtual Machines for faster smart contract processing

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Blockchain developer Telos today announced the launch of the Telos EVM, the first deployment of an Ethereum Virtual Machine on the EOS.IO blockchain. The service is designed to deliver smart contracts on a platform that is said to be more than 700 times …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Facebook discontinues low-end Oculus Go virtual reality headset

269GB of data stolen from US police departments published after ‘BlueLeaks’ hack

Microsoft acquires industrial cybersecurity startup CyberX for $165M

Facebook acquires VR games studio Ready at Dawn to enhance Oculus

ServiceNow to acquire configuration data management startup Sweagle

Arm-based Macs, new HomePod: Here’s what to expect from Apple’s online-only WWDC

Facebook acquires crowdsourced street-level imagery startup Mapillary

Telos launches EOS.IO Ethereum Virtual Machines for faster smart contract processing

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