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

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Spotify is now the most popular music-streaming service globally

Spotify AG has taken the crown as the world’s most popular music streaming service for the first time, according to a report released Tuesday. The App Annie Europe, Ltd. “Mobile Music Streaming: Driving The Next Digital Revolution” report found that mobile music streaming is booming globally and likewise is creating “huge” opportunities for app publishers ...

Samsung’s new mid-range Galaxy A phones get Samsung Pay and fingerprint scanning

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has updated its mid-range Galaxy A series phones, with the range now gaining features previously only seen in the flagship Note and S series devices. The main upgrade to the Galaxy A (2016) phones, which include the 4.7-inch A3, 5.2-inch A5, and the 5.5-inch A7, is support for mobile payments service ...

Cyber Monday sales hit record high of $2.98b, up 12% in 2015

A report from Adobe Systems, Inc. has found that 2015 saw a new record high for sales on Cyber Monday, America’s annual online sales event. According to the report, which was based on the analysis of aggregated and anonymous data of more than 125 million visits to 4,500 retail websites on Cyber Monday, a record ...

Josh Garza charged by SEC over GAW Miners Bitcoin mining scam

The saga of the GAW Miners and related subsidiaries, including Paybase and the altcoin Paycoin, is finally heading to court, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing charges Monday against founder Homero Joshua (Josh) Garza. In a statement, the commission accuses Garza of having perpetrated fraud through GAW Miners and the lesser ...

SSH generation fault leaves Raspberry Pi vulnerable to hacking

Users of the increasingly popular tiny and affordable computer the Raspberry Pi may be exposed to security issues due to the operating system on the device generating weak and predictable secure shell (SSH) keys. The flaw in the Raspbian operating system was discovered by a user named “oittaa” who revealed on the Raspberry Pi forums that ...

Bitcoin reputation startup Bonafide ceases operations after failing to make any money

Bitcoin reputation startup Bonafide IO, Inc. is no longer of this world, with the company having decided to cease operations. Founded in 2013, Bonafide offered a trust platform that allowed Bitcoin users to promote their community and identify. The general aim of the service was to provide a way for merchants and others dealing with Bitcoin ...

Bad to worse: VTech hack data includes kids pictures and chat logs

The news for children’s toy maker VTech Holdings Ltd. went from bad to worse Monday with the disclosure that a data breach included photos of children and their chat logs. Disclosure of the hack of VTech’s Learning Lodge, its app store for its range of electronic children’s products catering to infants through preschoolers, first came to light ...

Amazon demonstrates its latest delivery drone in new ad narrated by Jeremy Clarkson

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson isn’t just bringing a new show to Amazon.com, Inc., but has also taken on the role as company spokesman in a new video showing the company’s latest delivery drone. The ad for the new Amazon Prime Air delivery drone shows a new, more powerful hybrid drone design along with ...

Kids toy maker VTech hacked with details of 5m parents and kids exposed

Children’s toy maker VTech Holdings Ltd. has been hacked, with the details of some 5 million users, consisting of parents and children, being stolen. The company, which sells electronic learning products for children from infancy to preschool, confirmed the hack and said in an email that there was “unauthorized access” to its database on November 14. ...

Use Purse.io’s Bitcoin special to save an extra 10% off on Amazon Black Friday specials

With Black Friday only now one day away nearly every company has published their lists of what gleeful shoppers can acquire, but what is there was a way to save 10 percent on top of those purchases again? Bitcoin shopping service PurseIO, Inc. (Purse.io) is offering just that service if you make your Amazon Black ...