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

Data warehouse virtualization startup Datometry raises $17M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Data warehouse virtualization startup Datometry Inc. today said it has raised $17 million in new funding to accelerate go-to-market activities with its partners Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform as well as select systems integrators. The Series B round …

Google to require Nest users to use two-factor authentication for enhanced security

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC will start requiring users of its Nest smart home devices to use two-factor authentication in a move the company describes as providing more protection for Nest accounts. The introduction of compulsory 2FA will start to roll out in the spring to customers …

Antivirus firm Avast under investigation for selling users’ browser histories

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Antivirus firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular free products such as AVG and Avast Antivirus, is under investigation in its home country, the Czech Republic, for allegedly selling the browser history of its users to outside companies. The allegations that Avast was harvesting …

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp passes 2B users

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp has passed 2 billion users, becoming the third app to pass the mark after the Facebook app and the YouTube app. To put the number in perspective, there are currently 7.8 billion on the planet, meaning that …

440M records exposed online by cosmetics maker Estée Lauder

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Some 440 million records in a database belonging to cosmetics maker Estée Lauder Companies Inc. have been found unsecured and exposed online, potentially putting customers at risk. The database was discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler from Security Discovery Jan. 30 and publicized today. …

Lyft beats estimates in fourth quarter, but shares drop on profitability timeline

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Despite beating analyst predictions in its fourth-quarter earnings Monday, shares in Lyft Inc. dropped in after-hours trading after the company failed to move up its profitability timeline as rival Uber Technologies Inc. did Feb. 6. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, Lyft …

Microsoft backflips on plan to force Bing search on Office 365 ProPlus users

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. today backflipped on its controversial decision to install Bing as the default search engine in Google Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users. The original decision announced Jan. 22 was justified on the grounds that it will allow users in an …

Report: Rising costs drove $322 million loss at Airbnb in first 9 months of 2019

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Airbnb Inc. reportedly lost $322 million in the first nine months of 2019 on rising costs, raising questions about its valuation going into an initial public offering later this year. The Wall Street Journal reported the figure today, saying that the loss came …

Apple and others may have avoided supply shortages as some Foxconn plants reopen in China

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc., along with various other tech companies, may have avoided serious supply shortages as some plants belonging to Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn partially opened Monday, despite conflicting reports that they might not. Reuters reported Monday that the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen was given approval …

Infosys buys Salesforce consulting firm Simplus for up to $250M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd. said today it has reached an agreement to acquire Salesforce.com Inc. partner consulting firm Simplus Inc. Infosys did not disclose a specific acquisition price, but a regulatory filing said the acquisition was valued at up to $250 million — …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Data warehouse virtualization startup Datometry raises $17M

Google to require Nest users to use two-factor authentication for enhanced security

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp passes 2B users

440M records exposed online by cosmetics maker Estée Lauder

Lyft beats estimates in fourth quarter, but shares drop on profitability timeline

Microsoft backflips on plan to force Bing search on Office 365 ProPlus users

Report: Rising costs drove $322 million loss at Airbnb in first 9 months of 2019

Apple and others may have avoided supply shortages as some Foxconn plants reopen in China

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