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

Alphabet’s Wing launches new app to assist drone air traffic control

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc.’s drone subsidiary Wing Aviation LLC has unveiled a new app designed to help manage air traffic control for drones. Called OpenSky, the app, available for both iOS and Android, has first launched in Australia where it has gained government approval …

Sprint customer data hacked through Samsung website

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

U.S. telecommunications company Sprint Corp. has been hacked with an unknown number of accounts compromised, but in a twist, the company is blaming Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for the data breach. Affected customers were informed of the hack via email today, weeks after the …

Venture capital funding surges thanks to megarounds

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Venture capital funding in the U.S. in on track to hit a potential new record high in 2019 thanks to a rising number of megarounds. That’s according to data from the latest quarterly PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report released early Tuesday, which found …

Funds stolen in hack of MyDashWallet cryptocurrency service

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

MyDashWallet, a popular wallet service for users of the Dash cryptocurrency, was compromised and user funds stolen for a period of two months. Dash, currently the 15th most popular cryptocurrency by market capitalization, operates as a decentralized autonomous organization run by a subset …

Flight evacuated after suicide vest picture sent to other passengers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A plane belonging to JetBlue Airways Corp. was evacuated on the tarmac at Newark Airport Saturday after someone airdropped an image of a suicide vest to other Apple Inc. device users on the plane. AirDrop, introduced into both iOS and OS X …

Proposed law would ban Facebook, big tech firms from offering digital currencies

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Large technology companies would be banned from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies under a proposed bill targeting Facebook Inc.’s Libra cryptocurrency. Reuters reports that the bill, the “Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act” is being circulated for discussion …

China mining crackdown drops bitcoin to lowest price in nearly a month

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin plunged in trading over the weekend on news that China has launched a new crackdown on bitcoin mining operations. Bitcoin dropped below $10,000, to $9,922.61, at 10:20 p.m. EDT before slightly recovering to $10,256.56. as of 11:30 p.m. The …

TrickBot rises from the dead in new campaign that targeted 250M email accounts

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

In a scene straight out of a zombie television series, the TrickBot malware has risen from the dead with a new attack the may have targeted as many as 250 million email accounts, including those belonging to U.S. government employees. Season four of TrickBot, as …

Report: Huawei to lay off US R&D staff despite partial ban reprieve

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Despite a partial reprieve from a ban imposed by Trump administration in the midst of the U.S.-China trade war, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is set to lay off a substantial number of its U.S. employees, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal Sunday. The …

No friends in Washington for Facebook: Trump joins Libra pile-on

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

U.S. President Donald Trump has become the latest critic of Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency, taking to Twitter Thursday night to attack it as well as bitcoin. In a series of tweets, the President said that he was not a fan of bitcoin …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Alphabet’s Wing launches new app to assist drone air traffic control

Sprint customer data hacked through Samsung website

Venture capital funding surges thanks to megarounds

Funds stolen in hack of MyDashWallet cryptocurrency service

Flight evacuated after suicide vest picture sent to other passengers

Proposed law would ban Facebook, big tech firms from offering digital currencies

China mining crackdown drops bitcoin to lowest price in nearly a month

TrickBot rises from the dead in new campaign that targeted 250M email accounts

Report: Huawei to lay off US R&D staff despite partial ban reprieve

No friends in Washington for Facebook: Trump joins Libra pile-on

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