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

Adobe buys Magento for $1.68B to add e-commerce support to its Experience Cloud

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire Magento Inc. for $1.68 billion as the venerable software-as-a-service provider seeks to add e-commerce support to its existing cloud marketing services. Founded in 2008, Magento offers a platform covering digital commerce, order management …

Microsoft snaps up Semantic Machines to build out its conversational AI technology

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. Sunday said it has acquired Semantic Machines Inc., a Berkeley, California-based company that has built a conversational artificial intelligence platform that competes with the likes of Google Inc., for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, Semantic Machines has designed a …

Tidal investigates data breach that led to allegations of fraud, financial issues

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Prominent music streaming service Tidal is facing trouble on multiple fronts. The service said Friday it’s investigating a “data breach” that resulted in a publication claiming the company was artificially inflating numbers at the same time it’s falling behind in paying artist royalties. The …

Child tracking service TeenSafe exposes passwords on misconfigured AWS storage

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A smartphone monitoring service designed to allow parents to track teenagers has been found to have exposed passwords, in plain text no less, on a publicly available Amazon Web Service’s S3 storage instance. First reported by ZDNet, the data breach relates to …

Elon Musk lashes out at media as Tesla woes continue to mount

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Tesla Inc. is in the news again for all the wrong reasons: a new crash under investigation, potential money issues and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk attacking the media. At the top of the list is yet another crash involving a Tesla …

PayPal snaps up Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle for $2.2B

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

PayPal Holdings Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle AB in a $2.2 billion deal that will see PayPal directly take on onsite payment processing companies such as Square Inc. Founded in 2010, iZettle offers small businesses portable point-of-sale …

Smart home device sales heat up as Google gains market share from Amazon

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Interest in smart home speakers is heating up: New sales figures show Amazon.com Inc. falling below 50 percent of the market for the first time as competitors led by Google Inc. have continued to grab more market share. According to new numbers …

Economist estimates bitcoin will use 0.5% of world’s energy by the end of the year

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin mining will use 0.5 percent of the world’s energy by the end of the year, according to newly published, peer-reviewed study. Written by economist and PricewaterhouseCoopers blockchain specialist Alex de Vries, the paper, “Bitcoin’s Growing Energy Problem,” calculates bitcoin’s current energy use …

Didi Chuxing implements new safety features after driver murders woman

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. is not the only ride-hailing company with problems. Didi Chuxing Technology Co., the world’s largest startup by valuation, Wednesday was forced to make changes to one of its apps after a customer was murdered. The murder of a 21-year-old woman …

SEC sets up fake initial coin offering site to educate investors

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a page for a fake initial coin offering as a way of educating potential investors of ICO risks. Dubbed “Howeycoin,” the mock ICO website touts a too-good-to-be-true investment opportunity that mimics actual initial coin …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Adobe buys Magento for $1.68B to add e-commerce support to its Experience Cloud

Microsoft snaps up Semantic Machines to build out its conversational AI technology

Tidal investigates data breach that led to allegations of fraud, financial issues

Child tracking service TeenSafe exposes passwords on misconfigured AWS storage

Elon Musk lashes out at media as Tesla woes continue to mount

PayPal snaps up Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle for $2.2B

Smart home device sales heat up as Google gains market share from Amazon

Economist estimates bitcoin will use 0.5% of world’s energy by the end of the year

Didi Chuxing implements new safety features after driver murders woman

SEC sets up fake initial coin offering site to educate investors

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