Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Blockchain

Mastercard teams with R3 for cross-border blockchain payments pilot

By Duncan Riley Sep 12, 2019

R3 LLC and Mastercard Inc. Thursday said they’ve signed a strategic partnership to develop and pilot a blockchain-based cross-border payment solution. The payment solution will initially focus on connecting global faster payments infrastructures, schemes…

Security

Facebook patches serious Instagram vulnerability that opened door to data theft

By Duncan Riley Sep 12, 2019

Facebook Inc. has patched a serious vulnerability in its Instagram app that could have allowed a malicious actor to access user data including names, phone numbers and Instagram account numbers. Discovered by an Israeli…

Apps

SmileDirectClub flops in one of the worst-performing IPOs in decades

By Duncan Riley Sep 12, 2019

Proving that investors will not always tolerate money-losing tech companies going public, online “teledentistry” startup SmileDirectClub flopped on its Nasdaq debut on Thursday with shares in the company down 27.5% as of the close of…

Blockchain

French finance minister wants to block Facebook’s Libra in the EU

By Duncan Riley Sep 12, 2019

France will block Facebook Inc.’s Libra cryptocurrency within its own borders and will also attempt to block it within European Union. The announcement came Thursday from France’s Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le…

Emerging Tech

Voyage raises $31M to advance its self-driving car technology

By Duncan Riley Sep 12, 2019

Self-driving car startup Voyage Auto Inc. said today it has raised $31 million in new funding to ready its self-driving technology for commercialization. The Series B round will also be used to hire more staff…

Security

Kaspersky permanently banned from providing services to the US government

By Duncan Riley Sep 11, 2019

Kaspersky Lab has been permanently banned from providing services to U.S. government agencies following a temporary ban placed on the company because of allegations of Russian government links in 2017. The permanent ban, made…

Security

198M records exposed on misconfigured database belonging to Dealer Lead

By Duncan Riley Sep 11, 2019

Another day, another discovery of an exposed online database. Today’s “We didn’t secure our online database” story involves 198 million records exposed via an Elasticsearch database belonging to Dealer Leads, a provider of online services…

Cloud

Remote assistance cloud software firm TeamViewer to raise up to $2.54B in IPO

By Duncan Riley Sep 11, 2019

Remote assistance and support cloud software firm TeamViewer AG is set to go public in its native Germany later this month in what will be the country’s largest initial public offering since the dotcom boom. The…

Cloud

Cloudflare sets price ahead of IPO, reveals it may have broken sanctions laws

By Duncan Riley Sep 11, 2019

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today revised its price range on its initial public offering scheduled for Friday as the company also revealed that it may have broken U.S. sanctions laws by providing…

Blockchain

Blockstack raises $23M in historic initial coin offering endorsed by the SEC

By Duncan Riley Sep 10, 2019

Blockstack PBC, a startup that has built a blockchain-based network for decentralized apps, Tuesday said it has raised $23 million in an initial coin offering historic as the first token sale to be endorsed by the U.S.…

Duncan Riley

Mastercard teams with R3 for cross-border blockchain payments pilot

Facebook patches serious Instagram vulnerability that opened door to data theft

SmileDirectClub flops in one of the worst-performing IPOs in decades

French finance minister wants to block Facebook’s Libra in the EU

Voyage raises $31M to advance its self-driving car technology

Kaspersky permanently banned from providing services to the US government

198M records exposed on misconfigured database belonging to Dealer Lead

Cloudflare sets price ahead of IPO, reveals it may have broken sanctions laws

Blockstack raises $23M in historic initial coin offering endorsed by the SEC

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