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

PeerNova raises $31M to grow its fintech blockchain platform

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Financial industry software startup PeerNova Inc. today said it has raised $31 million in new funding to build additional services on its blockchain platform. The funding round was led by Mosaik Partners and included Overstock.com Inc.’s Medici Ventures and Intuitive Venture Partners. All …

Zuckerberg to tell hearing Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency will boost US financial leadership

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will tell the House Services Committee Wednesday that the social networking giant is extending American financial leadership and democratic values across the world. The company released Zuckerberg’s set remarks ahead of his scheduled testimony for the hearing titled “An Examination …

Snap returns to form with solid user growth and lower losses but shares fall

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Snap Inc. beat expectations across the board in its third-quarter financials today as the chat app maker saw a return to form. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Snap reported revenue of $446 million, up 50% from a year ago and ahead of …

European Data Protection Supervisor finds Microsoft contracts breach GDPR

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s contracts with European Union institutions are in breach of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, according to preliminary findings published Monday by the European Data Protection Supervisor. GDPR, which became EU law in May 2018, regulates processing, movement and use of …

Customer data from Best Western and other hotels exposed in massive data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A database that included customer booking details belonging to Autoclerk, a hotel reservations system owned by Best Western International Inc., has been found exposed online in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. Discovered by security researchers at vpnMentor, the 179-gigabyte database …

Cybersecurity company Avast hacked via employee virtual private network

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Czech cybersecurity firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular antivirus software provider AVG Technologies N.V., has been hacked, but the company managed to fight off the attack. Those behind the hack managed to gain access by compromising an employee’s virtual private network credentials …

SoftBank in advanced talks to take control of WeWork on $7.5-8 billion valuation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Real estate firm WeWork may soon no longer be an independent company: Lead investor SoftBank Group Corp. reportedly is in talks to take over control of parent company The We Company in an effort to arrest its ongoing losses. CNBC reported today that SoftBank is in …

Bitcoin.com acquires Japanese cryptocurrency startup O3 Labs

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin.com has acquired O3 Labs Inc., a Japanese startup that offers a range of cryptocurrency services for an undisclosed price. Under the deal, O3’s team and its services will be absorbed into Bitcoin.com. O3, based into Tokyo, primarily offers a cryptocurrency wallet …

Huawei in talks to license 5G tech in US as export bans start to bite

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. is in early-stage talks with U.S. telecommunications companies to license its 5G networking technology, bypassing a ban placed on its exporting its equipment to the U.S. in May just as related bans are starting to affect the company. Confirmation of the …

2.8M CenturyLink customer records exposed on misconfigured cloud database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Some 2.8 million customer records have been exposed online by communications firm CenturyLink Inc. in the latest case of a company failing to secure an online database. Discovered and publicized Friday by security researcher Bob Diachenko and researchers at Comparitech Ltd., the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

PeerNova raises $31M to grow its fintech blockchain platform

Zuckerberg to tell hearing Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency will boost US financial leadership

Snap returns to form with solid user growth and lower losses but shares fall

Cybersecurity company Avast hacked via employee virtual private network

SoftBank in advanced talks to take control of WeWork on $7.5-8 billion valuation

Bitcoin.com acquires Japanese cryptocurrency startup O3 Labs

Huawei in talks to license 5G tech in US as export bans start to bite

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