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

Fitness technology firm Peloton sets IPO share price on upper valuation of $8B

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Connected fitness technology firm Peloton Interactive Inc. today set a price of $26 to $29 per share ahead of its initial public offering, valuing the company as much as $8 billion and raising a planned $1.2 billion. Founded in 2012, Peloton offers connected …

Uber lays off 435 staff following record $5.2B loss

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. said today it has laid off 435 employees as the money-losing ride-hailing giant attempts to rein in costs following a staggering $5.2 billion loss in the second quarter. The cuts consisted of 170 people from Uber’s product team and 265 …

Open-source security platform provider Snyk raises $70M for global growth

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Open-source security platform provider Snyk Ltd. said today it has raised $70 million in new funding to fuel the company’s next phase of global growth. The Series B follow-on round was led by Accel and include existing investors GV (previously Google Ventures) and …

Chinese prof faces charges of stealing for Huawei as Microsoft comes to its defense

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A Chinese professor is facing wire fraud charges after allegedly stealing trade secrets for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., but the troubled Chinese smartphone maker is finding support from a surprising source: Microsoft Corp. The latest drama surrounding Huawei involves the arrest of Bo Mao last month, …

Texas refuses to pay up after ransomware attacks on local governments

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The Lone Star State is now the No Ransom Payments state as all 22 Texas local governments targeted by ransomware in August refused to pay the money demanded. The decision to oppose paying ransoms in the attacks came from the top. The Texas Department …

Flying taxi startup Volocopter raises $55M from Volvo owner Geely

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

German flying taxi startup Volocopter GmbH said today it has raised €50 million ($55.1 million) in new funding to assist it to bring its aircraft to commercial launch in the next three years. The Series C round was led by Chinese automaker Zhejiang …

LinkedIn loses appeal against company that scrapes member data

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn lost an appeal Monday against a company that scrapes its member data in a case that could have implications for privacy laws and fair use across the internet. The case related to an analytics and data science machine learning company …

Update now: Exim email server software vulnerable to hacking

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Users of the popular Exim email server software are being urged to update their installations following the discovery a vulnerability that can allow hackers to install malicious code with root privileges. The vulnerability is found in all versions of Exim up to …

Wikipedia suffers outages in Europe, Middle East after sustained DDoS attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of …

Bug bounty startup HackerOne raises $36.4M to expand global reach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Bug bounty startup HackerOne Inc. has raised $36.4 million in new funding to expand globally and scale up enterprise and data-powered offerings. The Series D round was led by Valor Equity Partners and included previous investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Dragoneer Investment Group and EQT Ventures. As …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Fitness technology firm Peloton sets IPO share price on upper valuation of $8B

Uber lays off 435 staff following record $5.2B loss

Open-source security platform provider Snyk raises $70M for global growth

Chinese prof faces charges of stealing for Huawei as Microsoft comes to its defense

Texas refuses to pay up after ransomware attacks on local governments

Flying taxi startup Volocopter raises $55M from Volvo owner Geely

LinkedIn loses appeal against company that scrapes member data

Update now: Exim email server software vulnerable to hacking

Wikipedia suffers outages in Europe, Middle East after sustained DDoS attack

Bug bounty startup HackerOne raises $36.4M to expand global reach

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