Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Sequoia Capital leads $18M round into real estate technology startup Skyline AI

By Duncan Riley Jul 31, 2018

Real estate investment technology startup Skyline AI Ltd. today said it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand platform integration to include additional asset classes and further cooperation with the leading commercial real estate…

Infra

A year after Equifax, report finds growing gap in digital trust

By Duncan Riley Jul 31, 2018

Nearly a year after the notorious hack of Equifax Inc. saw the theft of 146.6 million customer records, a new report has found that there’s a big gap between what consumers want in data protection and what…

Infra

Microsoft Component Object Model vulnerability allows for Windows hijacking

By Duncan Riley Jul 31, 2018

Security researchers at Cyberbit Ltd. have uncovered a new way that hackers can hijack Windows installations using a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Component Object Model. The Microsoft COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system…

Infra

Pentagon issues ‘Do Not Buy’ list covering Russian and Chinese software

By Duncan Riley Jul 30, 2018

The Pentagon has created a “Do Not Buy” list of primarily Chinese and Russian software makers the U.S. Department of Defense and its contractors shouldn’t buy software from due to security concerns. First reported…

Emerging Tech

IBM teams with CLS for unveil new LedgerConnect financial services blockchain

By Duncan Riley Jul 30, 2018

IBM Corp. said today it has teamed with foreign exchange services provider CLS Group Inc. and a number of banks to unveil a new proof-of-concept blockchain platform for the financial services industry. Called LedgerConnect,…

Emerging Tech

Report: Bitcoin miner Bitmain looking at public offering on $14B valuation

By Duncan Riley Jul 30, 2018

Chinese bitcoin hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. is looking to go public in either Hong Kong or the U.S., according to an unconfirmed report published Monday. Forbes claimed that the company is looking to…

Emerging Tech

Uber dumps self-driving truck division two years after buying Otto

By Duncan Riley Jul 30, 2018

Uber Technologies Inc. is shutting down its self-driving truck division two years after spending $680 million to acquire Otto, the company behind the technology, in 2016. First reported by TechCrunch, the decision is being pitched…

Cloud

Imperva acquires application self-protection security startup Prevoty for $140M

By Duncan Riley Jul 26, 2018

Cybersecurity software maker Imperva Inc. today said it has acquired runtime application self-protection security startup Prevoty Inc. for $140 million. Founded in 2013, Los Angeles-based Prevoty offers RASP security that is said to enable enterprises…

Infra

LifeLock exposes customer data via email unsubscribe vulnerability

By Duncan Riley Jul 26, 2018

Identity theft protection company LifeLock, a division of Symantec Corp., has exposed the email addresses of its customers in what could shape up to be one of the most ironic data exposure fails of…

Emerging Tech

Tenable, Pinduoduo and Opera surge on debuts as the IPO market continues to heat up

By Duncan Riley Jul 26, 2018

While headlines were dominated by an unprecedented fall in the stock price of Facebook Inc. today, it wasn’t all doom and gloom on Wall Street as three companies surged on their public debuts. Leading the…

Duncan Riley

Sequoia Capital leads $18M round into real estate technology startup Skyline AI

A year after Equifax, report finds growing gap in digital trust

Microsoft Component Object Model vulnerability allows for Windows hijacking

Pentagon issues ‘Do Not Buy’ list covering Russian and Chinese software

IBM teams with CLS for unveil new LedgerConnect financial services blockchain

Report: Bitcoin miner Bitmain looking at public offering on $14B valuation

Uber dumps self-driving truck division two years after buying Otto

Imperva acquires application self-protection security startup Prevoty for $140M

LifeLock exposes customer data via email unsubscribe vulnerability

Tenable, Pinduoduo and Opera surge on debuts as the IPO market continues to heat up

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