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

Paris Hilton endorses initial coin offering for ‘first AI big data marketing cloud for blockchain’

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

As cryptocurrencies plummet thanks to news that China has banned initial coin offerings, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. heiress Paris Hilton has jumped on the bandwagon. The Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. heiress this weekend endorsed an ICO by LydianCoin Pte. Ltd., a company that …

Sequoia and IDG invest $50M into Chinese bitcoin firm Bitmain

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In an unusual move for the venture firm, famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, along with IDG Capital, have invested $50 million in Chinese bitcoin hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc. Founded in 2013, Bitmain manufactures its own bitcoin …

China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Regulators in China have banned all initial public coin offerings pending a review and the possible introduction of regulations to control the booming market. News that China was considering banning ICOs emerged last week when it was reported that China’s Securities and Futures Commission, …

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The personal details of some 6 million Instagram users are being offered for sale online as employees of the app maker have been accused of selling account verification. Revelations that user details from Instagram had been hacked emerged last week, as the Facebook Inc.-owned app maker confirmed …

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has revealed a new chipset and reference design that moves the mobile chip giant into self-driving cars. The chipset, called the 9150 C-V2X (short for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything), facilitates vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Along with Qualcomm‘s C-V2X Reference Design, it uses two different methods to exchange messages between …

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Facial recognition may be the future of digital payments. A trial being run by Ant Financial Services Group, the financial payments arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and Yum China will allow customers to use their face to pay for their meal. The system, dubbed …

Wikileaks gets hacked on the same day it dumps CIA hacking tools data

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a supreme bit of irony, Wikileaks has been hacked on the same day it dumped data on a number of Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools. The data dump, part of Wikileaks’ Vault7 release series of secret government hacking tools, unveiled a CIA …

Locky ransomware returns in huge new email campaign

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new wave of Locky ransomware attacks has been discovered in what security researchers are describing as one of the largest ransomware-spreading spoofed email address campaigns this year. Initially detected by Comodo Threat Intelligence Lab Aug. 9, the attack ramped up this week. Security …

Chinese regulators consider massive crackdown on initial coin offerings

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Chinese regulators are considering a massive crackdown on initial coin offerings and may implement a complete ban until regulations are in place, according to reports from the country earlier this week. The state-controlled National Internet Finance Association of China issued a warning to …

Samsung’s the latest company to start testing self-driving cars in California

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will be the latest company to test self-driving vehicles on California roads as the South Korean-giant received permission to do so from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The company was keen to differentiate itself from some others …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Paris Hilton endorses initial coin offering for ‘first AI big data marketing cloud for blockchain’

Sequoia and IDG invest $50M into Chinese bitcoin firm Bitmain

China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

Wikileaks gets hacked on the same day it dumps CIA hacking tools data

Locky ransomware returns in huge new email campaign

Chinese regulators consider massive crackdown on initial coin offerings

Samsung’s the latest company to start testing self-driving cars in California

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