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

Microsoft’s Azure cloud-based Windows Virtual Desktop now generally available

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. made its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service generally available globally today, delivering on a promise it first made in December. WVD allows enterprises to give their employees access to virtualized applications and remote desktops anywhere, anytime. The service is designed …

Venezuela may use cryptocurrency to bypass financial sanctions

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Venezuela’s central bank is looking into ways to hold bitcoin and Ethereum and use them for financial transactions, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg late last week. The push is said to be coming from state-run oil company Petroloeos de Venezuela SA, which wants …

German police shut down dark web data center in former NATO bunker

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

German police have arrested seven people following a raid on an illegal data center in a former NATO military bunker that was hosting “dark web” sites promoting illegal content. The raid, which took place in the town of Traben-Trarbachsaw, saw the arrest of …

Commercial real estate artificial intelligence startup Okapi raises $5.5M

AI By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Commercial real estate-focused artificial intelligence startup Okapi today said it has raised $5.5 million in funding to expand its headcount and marketing. The Series A round was led by Marius Nacht, the co-founder and chairman of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Founded in …

Airbus hit by cyberattacks that targeted key suppliers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

European aircraft maker Airbus SE apparently has been hit by a number of cyberattacks that targeted the computer systems of its key suppliers in what is believed to be a coordinated campaign by hackers with links to China. The claim came today …

Facebook tests removing ‘like’ counts for users in Australia

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Copying an experiment that started with Instagram in July, Facebook Inc. is testing hiding the number of “likes,” reactions and views that a post gets. Starting with users in Australia, the social media giant is seeking to measure if the change encourages …

4.9M customer and provider records stolen in DoorDash data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Food delivery service provider DoorDash Inc. has suffered a data breach and the records of some 4.9 million customers, delivery providers and merchants have been stolen. DoorDash said the breach, which was detected May 4, involved unauthorized activity on a third-party service provider. …

Cloud-based encryption startup StrongSalt raises $3M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based encryption software company StrongSalt said today it has raised $3 million in seed funding from Valley Capital Partners to build out its encryption platform-as-a-service offering for developers and enterprises. Founded in 2017 in Sunnyvale, California, StrongSalt, formally named Overnest Inc., is developing an encrypted …

Cyber rerun: Dating app Heyyo exposes user data on unsecured Elasticsearch database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Exposing user data on unsecured cloud storage has become a broken record this year, one that won’t stop playing. The latest one came today from Heyyo, an online adult dating app. Discovered and publicized today by security researchers at WizCase, the breach involved …

Peloton sets IPO price at $29 but shares fall in Nasdaq debut

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Updated: Connected fitness technology firm Peloton Interactive Inc. Wednesday set its initial public offering price at $29 per share ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange, but investors weren’t all that impressed when shares debuted Thursday morning. Priced at the high end of …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Venezuela may use cryptocurrency to bypass financial sanctions

German police shut down dark web data center in former NATO bunker

Commercial real estate artificial intelligence startup Okapi raises $5.5M

Airbus hit by cyberattacks that targeted key suppliers

Facebook tests removing ‘like’ counts for users in Australia

4.9M customer and provider records stolen in DoorDash data breach

Cloud-based encryption startup StrongSalt raises $3M

Cyber rerun: Dating app Heyyo exposes user data on unsecured Elasticsearch database

Peloton sets IPO price at $29 but shares fall in Nasdaq debut

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