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

Facebook could switch to currency-linked stablecoins for Libra

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.’s Libra could possibly change course in the future and instead launch multiple so-called stablecoins tied to traditional currencies. The surprise announcement came from Libra head Davis Marcus, who told a banking seminar over the weekend that the group’s main goal …

AI recruitment startup Project Crowd raising money with security token offering

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence recruitment platform startup Project Crowd AG is taking a somewhat unusual route to raise funds, listing security tokens for sale on the digital investment platform WeOwn. The offering is seeking to raise 1 million Swiss Francs ($1.01 million). Investors can …

250,000 resumes exposed in latest case of misconfigured cloud storage

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The resumes of more than 250,000 job seekers have been found exposed online by two companies in the U.S. and U.K. in the latest case of publicly exposed cloud storage. Today’s tale of another Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud misconfiguration comes from …

19-year-old Galileo Financial raises $77M in its first venture capital round

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Galileo Financial Technologies Inc., a payments processing solution platform for financial technology firms, said today it has raised $77 million in funding to expand its product and enter new markets. The Series A round was led by Accel and included Qualtrics co-founder and Chief …

In Georgetown address, Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free expression

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg defended the giant social network at an address at Georgetown University today, claiming that the company was a champion of free expression. Invoking Frederick Douglass, slavery, the Enlightenment and the civil rights movement, Zuckerberg told the …

Bitcoin may have entered a bear market, teasing its lowest level in six months

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin may have entered a bear market as the price of the cryptocurrency’s price continued to drop Wednesday to some of its lowest levels in six months. The price of bitcoin dropped as low as $7.942.22 at 3:15 p.m. EDT, only slightly …

Yahoo Groups to close in latest post-Verizon acquisition purge

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Yahoo Groups, Yahoo’s long-running online discussion board is closing down, the latest service to do so since Yahoo was acquired by Verizon Communication Inc. in 2017. The service, a combination of electronic mailing list and threaded internet forum, can be traced back to …

337 people arrested in 11 countries for massive ‘dark web’ child exploitation site

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Some 337 people across 11 eleven countries and 22 U.S. states have been arrested as part of a takedown of a dark web site that dealt in child exploitation material. The takedown, led by various U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Internal …

New cryptojacking worm spreads via Docker software containers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Security researchers at Palo Alto Network Inc.’s Unit 42 have identified the first-ever cryptojacking worm that spreads using Docker software containers. Dubbed “Graboid,” the worm spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts and like other cryptocurrency worms before it, it utilizes …

Ripple’s Xpring invests in cryptocurrency self-custody startup Towo Labs

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today said it has made a strategic investment in Towo Labs AB, a Swedish startup developing technology for cryptocurrency self-custody. The investment will be used to support Towo Labs’ project roadmap for the next two years including the development …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Facebook could switch to currency-linked stablecoins for Libra

AI recruitment startup Project Crowd raising money with security token offering

250,000 resumes exposed in latest case of misconfigured cloud storage

19-year-old Galileo Financial raises $77M in its first venture capital round

In Georgetown address, Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free expression

Bitcoin may have entered a bear market, teasing its lowest level in six months

Yahoo Groups to close in latest post-Verizon acquisition purge

337 people arrested in 11 countries for massive ‘dark web’ child exploitation site

New cryptojacking worm spreads via Docker software containers

Ripple’s Xpring invests in cryptocurrency self-custody startup Towo Labs

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