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

Report: Uber in talks to invest $170M into Lime with a future acquisition option

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. is reported to be in talks to invest $170 million into electric scooter company LimeBike Inc. with an acquisition option, according to a report in The Information. The investment would value Lime at $510 million, down 79% from its $2.4 billion …

Robinhood raises $280M in new funding on $8.3B valuation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Free stock-trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. said today it has raised $280 million in a new late-stage funding on an $8.3 billion valuation to allow it to invest in scaling up its platform. The Series F round was led by Sequoia Capital and …

Dapps startup Near raises $21M in token raise led by Andreessen Horowitz

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Decentralized applications startup Near Inc. today announced a $21 million token raise alongside the launch of its Protocol MainNet. The token funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z fund. It’s the fund’s first investment after the firm announced April 30 that it had raised …

Bitcoin continues to rise as some predict a bull run

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin has continued to rise over the last week and some analysts are now suggesting that the cryptocurrency is entering a strong bull run. Bitcoin was trading at $8,730,11 as of 9:30 p.m. EDT, down over the last 24 …

91M customer records stolen from Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Indonesia e-commerce giant PT Tokopedia has been hacked with the stolen data being offered for sale on the dark web. Discovered and publicized over the weekend by data breach monitoring firm Under the Breach, the hack is believed to have taken place in March. Some 91 million customer records …

Uber to require drivers and riders to wear facemasks as it designs technology to enforce it

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. is set to require drivers and riders to wear a facemask and is designing technology to detect that drivers are doing so. The new policy will be rolled out in the U.S. and certain other countries, according to a report …

New Android EventBot malware steals data from financial applications

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A new form of Android mobile malware has been spotted in the wild that steals user data from financial applications. Dubbed “EventBot” by security researchers at Cybereason Inc. who wrote about it today, the new malware first emerged in March and is described …

Smartphone shipments hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

COVID-19 has hit smartphone sales hard, causing the largest-ever recorded drop in shipments in the first quarter of 2020. According to a report released by International Data Corp., smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% in the first quarter from the same quarter of 2019. Nearly 276 …

Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for second blockchain and cryptocurrency fund

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said today it has raised $515 million for a second fund to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency. The venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen (pictured) and Ben Horowitz in 2009, has been a prolific and …

Employee data stolen in latest hack of edtech company Chegg

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Education technology company Chegg Inc. has been hacked for the third time since 2018 with employee data stolen. The latest hack involved the theft of some 700 employee records and included names and Social Security numbers, according to a report in TechCrunch. How the hack …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: Uber in talks to invest $170M into Lime with a future acquisition option

Robinhood raises $280M in new funding on $8.3B valuation

Dapps startup Near raises $21M in token raise led by Andreessen Horowitz

Bitcoin continues to rise as some predict a bull run

91M customer records stolen from Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia

Uber to require drivers and riders to wear facemasks as it designs technology to enforce it

New Android EventBot malware steals data from financial applications

Smartphone shipments hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic

Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for second blockchain and cryptocurrency fund

Employee data stolen in latest hack of edtech company Chegg

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