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

Google Play Instant allows users to try games before buying them

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

“Try before you buy” is coming to the world of Android games, with Google LLC launching a new feature that allows games to be run without the need for them to be downloaded. Called Google Play Instant, the feature adds a “Try …

Trump bans US purchases of Venezuela’s ‘Petro’ cryptocurrency

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

U.S. President Donald Trump today banned Americans from trading Venezuela’s “Petro” cryptocurrency in a blow to what was already a dubious moneymaking scheme. The executive order, signed Monday, retrospectively dates to Jan. 9 a ban on all U.S. citizens undertaking any transactions, …

Uber vehicle in autonomous mode kills pedestrian, but may not be at fault

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc.’s troubled self-driving car program has gone from bad to worse as one of its vehicles ran over and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening. The victim, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, is said to have been crossing a road …

Initial coin offering investigation fuels Ethereum price plunge

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of Ethereum continued to drop over the weekend as investors feared that a continuing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may result in a rapid decline in the number of initial coin offerings that use the cryptocurrency. Ethereum …

IRS crackdown puts the fear of God into bitcoin investors

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Reports that the Internal Revenue Service is coming after bitcoin investors has put the fear of God into the market, causing a selloff that pushed the price of the cryptocurrency down by thousands of dollars over the last few days. The fears …

Report: Twitter set to be the latest company to ban crypto advertising

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. is set to join Facebook Inc. and Google LLC in banning advertising relating to cryptocurrencies, at least according to one report published Sunday. Sky News claimed that Twitter is set to implement a new advertising policy in the next two weeks that will prohibit …

Report: Zero-fee stock trading app startup Robinhood raising $350M on $5.6B valuation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Free stock trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. is raising $350 million in a late-stage round that brings its valuation to a stunning $5.6 billion. The Series D round was led by DST Global, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. …

St. Louis hospital operator the latest to expose data via misconfigured cloud storage

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Another day, another data breach in the medical industry. Today’s version comes from BJC Healthcare, a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization that runs two nationally recognized academic hospitals, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The data breach, which is believed to have affected at least …

To appease Apple users, Google renames Android Wear to Wear OS

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has changed the name of Android Wear, its wearables version of Android, to Wear OS by Google in an apparent bid to appease Apple Inc. users who were confused by the fact that the operating system worked with both Android …

Intel has redesigned its next-gen chips to fix Meltdown and Spectre flaws

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. is promising that the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will mostly be a thing of the past in its next generation of central processing units following a redesign of its upcoming eighth-generation Xeon and Core processor chips. The Meltdown and Spectre …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Google Play Instant allows users to try games before buying them

Trump bans US purchases of Venezuela’s ‘Petro’ cryptocurrency

Uber vehicle in autonomous mode kills pedestrian, but may not be at fault

Initial coin offering investigation fuels Ethereum price plunge

IRS crackdown puts the fear of God into bitcoin investors

Report: Twitter set to be the latest company to ban crypto advertising

St. Louis hospital operator the latest to expose data via misconfigured cloud storage

To appease Apple users, Google renames Android Wear to Wear OS

Intel has redesigned its next-gen chips to fix Meltdown and Spectre flaws

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