Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Twilio acquires cloud email services provider SendGrid for $2B

By Duncan Riley Oct 15, 2018

Cloud communications firm Twilio Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire SendGrid Inc., a cloud email services provider, for about $2 billion. Twilio offered 0.485 shares for each share of SendGrid stock, valuing…

Cloud

Report: Docker raises $92M as part of a $192M round

By Duncan Riley Oct 15, 2018

Software container pioneer Docker Inc. has apparently raised $92 million in new funding, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange filing. The round, first spotted by TechCrunch, is the partial fulfillment of a round in which Docker…

Emerging Tech

Google opens real-time translations to outside mobile devices

By Duncan Riley Oct 14, 2018

Google LLC has opened up the real-time translation feature to outside devices, seemingly giving up on trying to get people to buy its high-priced Pixel Bud earphones. The feature, built into Pixel Buds (pictured)…

Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies plunge as market uncertainty spreads to digital assets

By Duncan Riley Oct 11, 2018

Cryptocurrency prices plunged into Thursday as a plunge in the stock markets Wednesday spread to digital assets. Bitcoin led the red ink, dropping by as much as 7 percent to trade at its lowest price…

Emerging Tech

Apple IDs used to steal funds from Chinese payment services

By Duncan Riley Oct 11, 2018

China’s two largest mobile payment service providers said today that customer funds have been taken by hackers using stolen Apple Inc. account details and that the computing giant so far has failed to act on…

Apps

Katzenberg and Whitman tip new details about mobile streaming video service Quibi

By Duncan Riley Oct 11, 2018

There’s money to be made in short-form mobile streaming video, at least according to former Walt Disney Co. Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. head Meg Whitman (pictured), who today unveiled the…

Infra

Leading tech stocks hammered as US markets correct following record highs

By Duncan Riley Oct 10, 2018

In a day of red ink as markets retreated from record highs, tech stocks took a massive hammering Wednesday, in some cases more so than the rest of the market. CNBC claimed this was the…

Emerging Tech

Andy Rubin’s Essential reportedly working on an AI phone

By Duncan Riley Oct 10, 2018

Troubled phone maker Essential Technologies Inc., the company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is apparently taking another stab at producing something people want to buy in the form of an artificially intelligent smartphone.…

Apps

Report: Apple’s on-demand video service will be partially free to Apple users

By Duncan Riley Oct 10, 2018

Apple Inc.’s long-rumored Netflix-like video subscription service is closer to fruition with a surprising twist, as a new report claimed the core service will be free for Apple device owners. CNBC, quoting people familiar…

Security

Bloomberg makes fresh Chinese spying claims as others cast doubt on story

By Duncan Riley Oct 9, 2018

Bloomberg made fresh claims in its ongoing China spy chips story today, while others continued to cast doubt on the veracity of the claims. Bloomberg first published a report on Oct. 4 that claimed China had…

Duncan Riley

Twilio acquires cloud email services provider SendGrid for $2B

Google opens real-time translations to outside mobile devices

Cryptocurrencies plunge as market uncertainty spreads to digital assets

Apple IDs used to steal funds from Chinese payment services

Katzenberg and Whitman tip new details about mobile streaming video service Quibi

Leading tech stocks hammered as US markets correct following record highs

Andy Rubin’s Essential reportedly working on an AI phone

Report: Apple’s on-demand video service will be partially free to Apple users

Bloomberg makes fresh Chinese spying claims as others cast doubt on story

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