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

Cybersecurity super team takes down Android malware botnet

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A joint investigation by a number of high-profile companies has managed to bring down a botnet that was being used to run distributed denial of service attacks from infected Android devices. The botnet first raised its head Aug. 17 when it was …

Mark Cuban backs company developing a blockchain-based messaging platform

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Billionaire tech investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing a company developing an Ethereum blockchain-based platform that claims to be the future of online communications. Called the “Mercury Protocol,” the blockchain platform uses distributed record-keeping and a token system that supposedly …

Crowdfunded earbud startup Kanoa shuts down without delivering a product

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Kanoa Inc., a San Francisco-based company that promised to sell wireless earbuds that competed with Apple Inc.’s AirPods, has shut down without filling customer orders despite having raised approximately $150,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. The company, which went public with its campaign in …

Artificially intelligent drones will start patrolling for sharks in Australia

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Drones using artificial intelligence will be deployed off beaches in New South Wales, Australia, to detect sharks and warn swimmers. The new drones will patrol beaches and use artificial intelligence to detect sharks in the water. It’s not the first time drones have been …

Can new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi fix the company’s culture?

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Five weeks after Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned from the company following ongoing sexual harassment scandals, Expedia Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi has been named the ride-hailing giant’s new CEO, according to reports published Sunday. Recode, citing unnamed sources, noted that Khosrowshahi (pictured) was …

Animals are lesser than humans in proposed German self-driving car ethics law

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Animals are lesser beings than humans. That’s the biggest takeaway from a newly proposed law in Germany that defines ethical standards with self-driving cars. The new law, proposed by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, attempts to define how …

Co-working firm WeWork raises a staggering $4.4B from Softbank

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. has raised a staggering $4.4 billion in a venture capital round raised from Japanese telco giant the SoftBank Group and its venture capital subsidiary, the SoftBank Vision Fund. The round is split a couple of different ways. Some $3 billion of …

Study finds big companies are not protecting against phishing attacks

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A study of top companies in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia has found a majority have not yet implemented basic protections designed to protect against phishing attacks. More specifically, they haven’t embraced Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC, which can …

Gamers warned about the spread of dangerous new trojan downloader

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Gamers are being warned that a dangerous newly discovered trojan virus downloader is being bundled with popular online games downloaded from other sites. Dubbed “Joao” by researchers at security firm ESET spol. s r.o, the trojan was found in the wild bundled …

Network operations monitoring startup Forward Networks raises $16M

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Network operations monitoring startup Forward Networks Inc. has raised $16 million in a Series B round led by DFJ, along with investment from Andreessen Horowitz and A.Capital Ventures. Founded in 2013, the company offers a platform that provides network visibility, policy verification and change modeling. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cybersecurity super team takes down Android malware botnet

Mark Cuban backs company developing a blockchain-based messaging platform

Crowdfunded earbud startup Kanoa shuts down without delivering a product

Artificially intelligent drones will start patrolling for sharks in Australia

Can new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi fix the company’s culture?

Animals are lesser than humans in proposed German self-driving car ethics law

Co-working firm WeWork raises a staggering $4.4B from Softbank

Study finds big companies are not protecting against phishing attacks

Gamers warned about the spread of dangerous new trojan downloader

Network operations monitoring startup Forward Networks raises $16M

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