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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

Zoom fixes vulnerability that allowed hackers to hijack Mac webcams

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Videoconferencing firm Zoom Video Communications Inc. today issued a fix for a vulnerability that could have allowed a hacker to hijack a webcam on a Mac computer via a malicious website. Detailed by security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, the vulnerability exploits a feature in the Mac …

Israeli SaaS customer collaboration startup Lightico raises $14.5M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Israeli software-as-a-service customer collaboration startup Lightico Ltd. has raised $14.5 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its global presence. The funding round was led by Mangrove Capital Partners and included previous investors lool ventures and Crescendo. Founded in 2014, Lightico provides customer experience software …

GitHub account belonging to Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical hacked

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A GitHub account belonging to Canonical Ltd., the maker of Ubuntu Linux, was hacked over the weekend as a hacker created new repositories in the process. The hack took place on Saturday via compromised credentials. The hacker created 11 new repositories with names such …

Cloud-based employee performance management startup 15Five raises $30.7M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based employee performance management software startup 15Five Inc. said today it has raised $30.7 million in new funding to accelerate growth, scale sales and marketing, and to invest further in product development. The Series B round was led by Next47 and included Matrix Partners, PointNine Capital, …

SoftBank gets green light for $2.25B GM Cruise investment

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

GM Cruise LLC, the self-driving car division of General Motors Co., is set to receive $2.25 billion in funding from Japanese telco giant SoftBank Group Corp. after the investment received approval from a government committee. The deal was announced in May 2018 but came …

US asks federal court to throw out Huawei ban lawsuit

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

U.S. government officials filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. over a ban against its equipment being used by government agencies. The ban in question, not to be confused with a later, since partially rescinded ban on the export of U.S. …

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