Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Amazon tops smart home speaker market as sales surge over the holiday season

By Duncan Riley Feb 19, 2019

Amazon.com Inc. maintained its lead in the smart home speaker market in the fourth quarter as sales of the devices hit record highs over the holiday season. The numbers come from a new report out…

Emerging Tech

Uber and Cruise open-source their visualization software

By Duncan Riley Feb 19, 2019

Both Uber Technologies Inc. and Cruise, the autonomous vehicle division of General Motors Co. have open-sourced their visualization software as both attempt to make the technologies a standard. Uber has open-sourced its Autonomous Visualization System,…

Blockchain

Coinbase acquires blockchain tracking startup Neutrino to expand intelligence services

By Duncan Riley Feb 19, 2019

Coinbase Inc. has acquired blockchain tracking startup Neutrino srl for an undisclosed price to expand its blockchain intelligence services. Founded in 2016, Neutrino offers a platform for analyzing, tracking and investigating blockchain and other virtual…

Blockchain

Bitcoin price teases $4,000 in another sign of a possible new bull run

By Duncan Riley Feb 18, 2019

The price of bitcoin rallied Monday to break the $4,000 mark at least temporarily, its highest level since briefly touching the same level in early January and before that in early December. The latest price…

Blockchain

QuadrigaCX crypto farce continues, but there may be good news for investors

By Duncan Riley Feb 17, 2019

There’s both good and bad news for cryptocurrency investors who lost around $190 million from Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX. Earlier in the month, it was reported that $190 million in customer funds consisting of both cryptocurrency and regular…

Blockchain

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to boost support for cryptocurrency

By Duncan Riley Feb 17, 2019

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. is set to expand support for cryptocurrencies, possibly including cryptocurrency exchange services, via an upgrade to an existing mobile app coming March 18. The news cames in the company’s…

Security

Another database with hacked account details found for sale on the dark web

By Duncan Riley Feb 17, 2019

Another day, another database of hacked account details. This one, containing 93 million hacked records, was discovered for sale today on the dark web, the shady part of the internet reachable through special software.…

Security

Google forcing potentially compromised Nest users to reset passwords

By Duncan Riley Feb 17, 2019

Google LLC-owned Nest is forcing users to reset their passwords if it believes they may have been compromised. First reported Friday by The Verge, the move appears to be a followup to Nest’s previously asking…

Blockchain

Reality Shares pulls bitcoin-related ETF application on SEC advice

By Duncan Riley Feb 14, 2019

Another day, another bitcoin-related exchange-traded fund request pulled: Reality Shares ETF Trusts withdrew its ETF application Wednesday at the request of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Reality Shares Blockforce Global Currency Strategy ETF…

Security

6M accounts compromised in hack of dating app Coffee Meets Bagel

By Duncan Riley Feb 14, 2019

Coffee Meets Bagel Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area dating app startup, has been hacked with the account details of approximately 6 million users stolen. Notification of the data breach was sent to app…

Duncan Riley

Amazon tops smart home speaker market as sales surge over the holiday season

Uber and Cruise open-source their visualization software

Coinbase acquires blockchain tracking startup Neutrino to expand intelligence services

Bitcoin price teases $4,000 in another sign of a possible new bull run

QuadrigaCX crypto farce continues, but there may be good news for investors

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to boost support for cryptocurrency

Google forcing potentially compromised Nest users to reset passwords

Reality Shares pulls bitcoin-related ETF application on SEC advice

6M accounts compromised in hack of dating app Coffee Meets Bagel

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