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

Lime to launch car-sharing service in Seattle this week

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc.– and Uber Technologies Inc.-backed scooter- and bike-sharing service LimeBike Inc. is expanding its services to four wheels in the form of a car-sharing service. Bloomberg reported today that Lime will launch a car-sharing service in Seattle this week. The service is starting …

Autonomous indoor inspection drone startup Flyability raises $11M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Autonomous indoor inspection drone startup Flyability SA today said it has raised $11 million in new funding to increase production, expand its partner network and hike increase research and development. The Series B round was co-led by ETF Partners and Swisscom Ventures with …

Scammers hijacking verified Twitter accounts to promote Elon Musk bitcoin scams

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Scammers pretending to be Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk have been hijacking Twitter accounts to promote bitcoin scams. Those behind the scam hijack verified accounts — those with a blue checkmark next to them — change the account name and bio …

Apple suppliers warn of faltering iPhone demand – and take down the stock market

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Demand for the latest iPhone range may be faltering as three major suppliers today issued warnings of weakening demand. As a result, shares of Apple and iPhone component makers all dropped today, triggering a bloodbath on Wall Street. The Dow Jone Industrial Average …

IT management software firm Apptio acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.9B

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Slightly over two years since going public, information technology management software firm Apptio Inc. is going private again via a $1.94 billion acquisition from private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal will see Apptio shareholders receive $38 per share, a 53 percent premium to Friday’s closing price …

Apple announces repair program for faulty iPhone X and MacBook Pro models

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. Friday announced repair programs for two of its most popular devices launched last year, both suffering hardware faults. Top of the list is the iPhone X, the first iPhone launched without a home button in September 2017. It was discontinued two …

Report: Facebook pushed out Oculus founder Palmer Luckey for his political views

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was forced out of Facebook Inc. for his political views, according to a new report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal. Luckey (pictured) left Facebook in March 2017 after having virtually disappeared six months earlier. When he left, it …

Medici Ventures bitcoin wallet provider Bitsy to open testing on Monday

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Bitsy, a portfolio company of Overstock.com Inc.’s blockchain accelerator Medici Ventures, will launch a beta version of its exchange and wallet service starting Monday. Pitched as a new app-based platform that creates an easy, secure and user-friendly bridge between bitcoin and the …

DJI vulnerability could have allowed hackers to steal drone data

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A vulnerability on a website for drone company Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd. or DJI could have allowed hackers to steal customer data including confidential information, according to a newly published report. The vulnerability, revealed Thursday by security researchers at Check Point Software …

With an enterprise focus, HTC brings standalone Vive Focus VR headset to US and Europe

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

HTC Corp. is bringing its Vive Focus standalone virtual reality headset to Europe and North America after launching the device exclusively in China last year. The first significant standalone VR headset from the company is powered by a Snapdragon 835 mobile processor and …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Autonomous indoor inspection drone startup Flyability raises $11M

Scammers hijacking verified Twitter accounts to promote Elon Musk bitcoin scams

Apple suppliers warn of faltering iPhone demand – and take down the stock market

IT management software firm Apptio acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.9B

Apple announces repair program for faulty iPhone X and MacBook Pro models

Report: Facebook pushed out Oculus founder Palmer Luckey for his political views

Medici Ventures bitcoin wallet provider Bitsy to open testing on Monday

DJI vulnerability could have allowed hackers to steal drone data

With an enterprise focus, HTC brings standalone Vive Focus VR headset to US and Europe

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