Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Security

Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion raises $120M in new funding

By Duncan Riley Apr 7, 2020

Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion Inc. said today it has raised $120 million in new round led by Bregal Sagemount. Founded in 1999, Accellion offers an enterprise content firewall that is designed to prevent data…

Apps

Samsung beats preliminary earnings estimates on strong demand for memory chips

By Duncan Riley Apr 6, 2020

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Tuesday that it expects to report a first-quarter operating profit of 6.4 trillion won ($5.23 billion) on operating revenue of 6.3 trillion won ($45 billion) despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The profit is…

Security

FBI warns that COVID-19 topics are being used in business email compromise attacks

By Duncan Riley Apr 6, 2020

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to expand their business email compromise attacks. The bureau noted that a typical BEC scam involves victims receiving emails…

Cloud

Digital workplace solutions provider WorkJam raises $50M

By Duncan Riley Apr 6, 2020

Digital workplace solutions provider WorkJam Inc. has raised $50 million in new funding to fund product innovation and geographic expansion, make acquisitions and hire more people. The Series C round, announced today, was led by…

Apps

Airbnb raises $1B to help it weather the COVID-19 storm

By Duncan Riley Apr 6, 2020

Airbnb Inc. today said it has raised $1 billion in new funding in a combination of debt and equity to help the accommodation booking provider weather the COVID-19 storm. The funding came from Silver…

Emerging Tech

UK calls for crackdown on 5G conspiracy theories as cell phone towers set on fire

By Duncan Riley Apr 5, 2020

The U.K. government is calling on social media and video sites, including Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and YouTube, to crack down on 5G conspiracy theories after cell towers were set on fire by people…

Apps

Apple is now producing face shields for medical workers

By Duncan Riley Apr 5, 2020

Apple Inc. is stepping up to the plate in supporting coronavirus medical relief by designing and producing face shields for those working in the medical field. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took to Twitter…

Security

More security and privacy concerns dog Zoom

By Duncan Riley Apr 5, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has seen an unprecedented switch to remote working and online working and video apps have seen a massive boom — most of all for Zoom Video Communications Inc., which…

Security

Digital wallet app Key Ring exposes user data on misconfigured cloud databases

By Duncan Riley Apr 2, 2020

Data belonging to 14 million users of the Key Ring digital wallet app has been discovered exposed on multiple Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 buckets. The breach was discovered and publicized today by security researchers Noam Rotem…

Apps

SoftBank terminates offer to acquire $3B in WeWork shares

By Duncan Riley Apr 2, 2020

In a stunning turn of events in what is already tech’s biggest soap opera, SoftBank Group Corp. has terminated an offer to acquire $3 billion in WeWork shares as part of its $8 billion bailout…

Duncan Riley

Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion raises $120M in new funding

Samsung beats preliminary earnings estimates on strong demand for memory chips

FBI warns that COVID-19 topics are being used in business email compromise attacks

Digital workplace solutions provider WorkJam raises $50M

Airbnb raises $1B to help it weather the COVID-19 storm

Apple is now producing face shields for medical workers

More security and privacy concerns dog Zoom

Digital wallet app Key Ring exposes user data on misconfigured cloud databases

SoftBank terminates offer to acquire $3B in WeWork shares

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