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

Proving foldable smartphones are hard, Huawei delays release of Mate X

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Smartphone sales have stagnated over the past few years and even started to decline as newly released phones struggle to provide any great leap forward in functionality and design. Then along came foldable phones in the first half of this year — but …

700,000 Choice Hotels customer records stolen, held for ransom

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Some 700,000 customer records belonging to Choice Hotels International Inc. have been stolen and those behind the data theft are demanding a ransom payment of 0.4 bitcoin ($4,142) to delete their copy. In a twist of a traditional failure to secure an …

Ripple’s Xpring invests $264M into micropayments startup Coil

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today announced a grant of 1 billion Ripple XRP cryptocurrency worth about $264 million into Coil Technologies Inc., a provider of micropayments for content providers. The funding will be used by Coil to promote its adoption …

Data analytics startup Incorta raises $30M to expand operations

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. today said it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its headcount, invest in further product development, deepen relationships with the major public cloud providers and reduce operational costs. The Series C round was led by Sorenson …

Bitcoin price drops as US-China trade tensions ease, renminbi rises

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin looked set to drop below the important $10,000 mark in trading Wednesday as the cryptocurrency loses most of it gains made since the beginning of the month. Bitcoin was trading at $10,043.19 as of 10:45 p.m. EDT, down 5.5% over the last …

Huawei employees allegedly helped African governments spy on opponents

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Employees of Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. have assisted governments in at least two African countries of spying on political opponents, the Wall Street Journal said today in an exclusive investigation. The report, which did not find collusion between Huawei and the Chinese government in …

BC Partners acquires IT services firm Presidio for $2.1B

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Information technology services firm Presidio Inc. is going private two years after its initial public offering as the company’s board accepted a $2.1 billion all-cash acquisition offer from private equity firm BC Partners. The deal values Presidio shares at $16 each, a …

Capital One hacker may have stolen data from 30+ other companies

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the theft of more than 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp., may have stolen data from more than 30 other companies and organizations, according to a court filing made public today. The allegations came via …

Aggressive new ‘Norman’ cryptominer attempts to hide and avoid discovery

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A new aggressive form of cryptomining malware has been discovered in a midsized company with features that alarmed those who discovered it. Detailed today by the Varonis Security Research team, the cryptomining malware dubbed “Norman” uses various techniques to hide and avoid discovery. It also deploys …

SEC launches probe into First American data breach that exposed 885M records

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a investigation into a data breach on the website of First American Financial Corp. that exposed 885 million personal and financial records dating back to 2003. The news today came from security researcher Brian Krebs who first …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Proving foldable smartphones are hard, Huawei delays release of Mate X

700,000 Choice Hotels customer records stolen, held for ransom

Ripple’s Xpring invests $264M into micropayments startup Coil

Data analytics startup Incorta raises $30M to expand operations

Bitcoin price drops as US-China trade tensions ease, renminbi rises

Huawei employees allegedly helped African governments spy on opponents

BC Partners acquires IT services firm Presidio for $2.1B

Capital One hacker may have stolen data from 30+ other companies

Aggressive new ‘Norman’ cryptominer attempts to hide and avoid discovery

SEC launches probe into First American data breach that exposed 885M records

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