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

The ‘SoftBank Effect’: Megarounds drive U.S. venture funding up 17% in 2017

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Thanks to a continued flush of huge funding rounds, venture capital flowing into U.S.-based companies rose 17 percent last year, to $71.9 billion. The numbers, released early Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights’ in their quarterly MoneyTree Report, found that overall venture capital …

Bitcoin ETF applications withdrawn following SEC advice

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Attempts to bring bitcoin exchange-traded funds to market have taken a blow as several companies withdrew their applications following feedback from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies that have withdrawn their applications include Direxion Shares ETF Trust, Exchange Listed Funds Trust and ProShares Trust, …

Hijacking for cryptocurrency mining: coming to a public Wi-Fi hotspot near you

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Connecting to public Wi-Fi networks has always come with a certain level of risk, but in a new twist, the next time you connect at your local cafe, it could be hijacked to mine for cryptocurrencies. Initially published as a proof of concept …

Kodak shares surge 200% after company announces initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Shares in Eastman Kodak surged by nearly 200 percent Tuesday after the venerable company announced it was jumping on the blockchain bandwagon with an initial coin offering and blockchain-based platform for managing digital rights for photographers. Kodak, for those without long memories …

Microsoft forced to stop issuing faulty Meltdown and Spectre patches

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s usually mundane monthly “Patch Tuesday” release took a different twist this month following a mad scramble to issue fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities disclosed last week, some of which have since been found to have problems. The monthly patch …

Questionable report claims China is looking to ban bitcoin mining again

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

China is reported to be moving to ban bitcoin mining again, maybe. A questionable report surfaced Monday that claims a previously unknown regulator in China is asking other government authorities to push bitcoin miners out of business. The claim comes from Quartz, which reported that the directive …

Toymaker VTech pays $650,000 to settle complaint related to 2015 hack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Children’s toy maker VTech Holdings Ltd. has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission related to the hacking and subsequent theft of data on its customers in 2015. The FTC alleged in its complaint that …

Amazon Alexa to be preinstalled on a range of new Windows 10 PCs

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. has opened a new front in its efforts to dominate the smart home assistant market: It has signed new deals with a range of manufacturers that will see Alexa preinstalled on Windows 10-powered personal computers. Announced at the Consumer Electronics …

Reports claim messaging app Telegram is preparing a $500M initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Encrypted-messaging startup Telegram Messenger LLC looks like it will be the latest company to jump on the initial coin offering bandwagon, according to a number of reports in recent days. Cryptovest broke the news first on Jan. 5, revealing both a teaser …

GoPro dumps Karma drone as part of a broader restructure

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Troubled action camera maker GoPro Inc. is exiting the drone market as part of a broader restructure of the company as it struggles to grow sales in a highly competitive market. The news of GoPro’s exit from drones came via its fourth-quarter …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

The ‘SoftBank Effect’: Megarounds drive U.S. venture funding up 17% in 2017

Bitcoin ETF applications withdrawn following SEC advice

Hijacking for cryptocurrency mining: coming to a public Wi-Fi hotspot near you

Kodak shares surge 200% after company announces initial coin offering

Microsoft forced to stop issuing faulty Meltdown and Spectre patches

Questionable report claims China is looking to ban bitcoin mining again

Toymaker VTech pays $650,000 to settle complaint related to 2015 hack

Amazon Alexa to be preinstalled on a range of new Windows 10 PCs

Reports claim messaging app Telegram is preparing a $500M initial coin offering

GoPro dumps Karma drone as part of a broader restructure

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