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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Surface killer? Report that Google planning to launch 10.2″ Pixel C Android powered tablet

Google may be expanding its Pixel line of laptops into tablets with a report Monday that the company was looking to take the good fight to the Microsoft Surface. According to Android Police, the Google Pixel C tablet, codenamed Ryu, will ship with a 10.2-inch display with 308ppi and a super-bright backlight capable of 500 ...

Blogging platform provider Medium raises $57m Series B

Blogging platform provider Medium (A Medium Corporation) has raised $57 million Series B in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with previous investors Google Ventures, Obvious Ventures, The Chernin Group and Greylock Partners also participating. Founded in 2011 by Ev Williams and Biz Stone, both well known as the founders of Twitter, Inc., the site ...

China boosts iPhone 6s and 6s Plus sales to record high of 13m handsets on opening weekend

Sales in China have boosted sales in Apple’s new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, with both phones going on sale to the public last Friday to the highest sales on record for an Apple device in its opening weekend. Both phones sold a cumulative 13 million handsets globally for the three sales days ending last ...

Unicorn test: SaaS enterprise solutions provider & Australia’s biggest startup Atlassian files for IPO

SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Pty. Ltd., Australia’s biggest tech startup, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). Details are somewhat vague, with The Wall Street Journal noting that the company has filed the IPO paperwork under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which is said to permit companies with under $1 billion in ...

Cloud-based CAD SaaS firm Onshape raises $80m Series D

Cloud-based CAD startup Onshape, Inc. has raised $80 million Series D in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that included existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Commonwealth Capital Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. Founded in 2012, Onshape claims to be the first and only full-cloud 3D CAD system that delivers design team collaboration using ...

Unicorn test: Pure Storage chasing $16-$18/ share on $3-$3.33b valuation in November IPO

Enterprise storage makers Pure Storage, Inc. is looking to sell 25 million shares at a range of $16 to $18 when its initial public offering (IPO) hits the New York Stock Exchange next month, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday. The price is said to value the company between $2.96 billion and $3.33 billion. ...

Killer app? Minecraft is coming to the Oculus Rift whenever it is eventually launched

In what could be described as possibly a killer app for the still in vitro virtual reality market, Facebook, Inc.-owned Oculus Rift has announced that the ever popular Minecraft is coming to the platform. The news was delivered on the second day of the Oculus Connect conference (yes, they have a conference despite still not ...

Sexy: New Pebble Time Round is the best looking, thinnest and lightest smart watch on the market

When most people think of smart watches they don’t think good looking no matter how much Apple’s marketing tries to change the perception, but what if there was actually such a thing as a sexy looking smart watch on the market? Now there is. Smart watch minnow Pebble Technology Corp. has launched the Time Round, ...

Hack this: Gaping security flaw in iOS 9 allows easy bypass of passcode/ Touch ID

Following an already embarrassing week for Apple after the Xcodeghost malware fiasco, the tech giant is faced with more scrutiny Wednesday when it was discovered that it’s new iOS 9 mobile operating system has shipped with a gaping security flaw. The as yet named flaw is triggered on Apple iPhone and iPad devices running the ...

Google ups the cloud wars ante with Cloud Dataproc managed Spark and Hadoop hosting

Google has decided it wants a bigger slice of the Big Data pie by launching a new service that offers managed hosting to both Spark and Hadoop. Called Google Cloud Dataproc, the service allows users take advantage of open source data tools for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning, complete with automation tools that ...