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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

Bitcoin price bounces after Senate regulation hearing delivers no surprises

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin surged Tuesday after presentations by U.S. regulators at a Senate hearing on cryptocurrencies delivered no surprises. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the Senate banking committee that …

Snap shares rocket nearly 50% on strong user and revenue growth

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Snap Inc. surprised the market with its fourth-quarter results Tuesday as the Snapchat app maker reported renewed growth in user numbers and revenue. Revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 jumped 72 percent, to $285.7 million, from a year earlier, roughly $30 million above …

Rapidly spreading cryptomining botnet targets Android phones and smart TVs

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new botnet that targets Android devices to mine for cryptocurrency is spreading rapidly in the wild, just days after more than a half-million Windows personal computers were reported hijacked by the Smominru botnet for similar purposes. The new botnet, dubbed ADB.Miner by security researchers at Qihoo 360 …

Bitcoin’s bear run continues as US regulators prep more oversight

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin continued its bear run in Monday trading as U.S. regulators prepared to call on Congress for more oversight and new regulations on cryptocurrency markets. The regulation call is set to come from Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and …

Grammarly patches browser extensions that exposed private user data

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Popular grammar-checking startup Grammarly Inc. has been forced to issue an urgent update to its browser extensions after they were discovered to be exposing user data to malicious websites. The security bug, discovered by security researcher Tavis Ormandy, affected both the Chrome and Firefox Grammarly …

Latest iPhone X bug makes it difficult to answer calls

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc.’s troubled iPhone X smartphone is facing more issues amid reports of complaints that they have problems answering phone calls. The problem, which first emerged on Apple’s support pages, involves a delay between an incoming call and the display on the iPhone …

New Adobe Flash critical vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A newly discovered critical vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash player is being actively exploited, possibly by North Korean hackers. The newly uncovered vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) exists in recent versions of Flash up to 28.0.0.137 and gives an attacker Remote Code Execution access, which allows …

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