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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

Walmart sues Tesla over solar panels that started fires at seven stores

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Walmart Inc. filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc. subsidiary Tesla Energy Operations Inc. Tuesday claiming that the company is responsible for fires that started via solar panels at seven locations. The multimillion-dollar suit accuses Tesla and SolarCity Corp., the solar panel company acquired by …

MoviePass customer credit card data exposed in unsecured database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Tens of thousands of customers of movie ticketing service MoviePass Inc. may have had their credit card and customer card details stolen as a database containing 161 million records was discovered unsecured online. The discovery, reported Tuesday by TechCrunch, involved a live database that …

1.2M account details exposed on adult content site Luscious

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

An website for sharing adult content has exposed the details of nearly 1.2 million users on an unsecured Elasticsearch database. Discovered recently by security researchers at vpnMentor, the site goes by the name of Lucious and shares user-uploaded content, including hentai, or Japanese anime …

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches cryptocurrency exchange

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. Monday launched a cryptocurrency exchange after plans were first reported in February. The exchange, launched under the company’s Rakuten Wallet Inc. division, launches with spot trading via mobile app for three cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. The …

Binance’s ‘Venus’ stablecoin project to take on Facebook’s Libra

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is taking on Facebook Inc. with a stablecoin project to rival the social network’s announced Libra. Called “Venus,” the project has been designed to develop localized stablecoins and digital assets pegged to fiat currencies across the …

23 local governments in Texas crippled by coordinated ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

About 23 local governments in Texas have been crippled in an unprecedented coordinated ransomware attack. The attack started on Friday. Texas State officials didn’t name which local governments were affected, only describing them as “smaller local governments.” According to Google, Texas has …

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