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

Bitcoin Investment Trust application withdrawn over fears of SEC rejection

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

An application by Grayscale Investments LLC to take its Bitcoin Investment Trust public has been withdrawn over fears that it would be rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The trust was seeking to raise $500 million with an investment objective that the registered shares would …

Whole Foods point-of-sale terminals hacked, credit card data stolen

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Just over a month since being acquired by Amazon.com Inc., Whole Foods Market disclosed Thursday that some of its point-of-sale terminals had been hacked, resulting in the theft of customer data, including credit details. How many Whole Foods outlets were affected by the hack was not …

Self-driving car technology startup Drive.ai raises $15M from Uber rival Grab

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley self-driving car technology startup Drive.ai has raised $15 million in a new round from GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd., an Uber Technologies Inc. rival and Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing service. Founded in 2015 by former lab partners from Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, …

IKEA acquires TaskRabbit to help customers assemble furniture

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Flat-pack furniture retailer IKEA Group has acquired TaskRabbit Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that provides an on-demand hiring platform often used to hire people to put together IKEA furniture. Founded in 2008, TaskRabbit offers an app from which users can hire what they …

North Korea hacking bitcoin exchanges along with threatening nuclear war

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

North Korea latest act of maleficence doesn’t involve nuclear weapons but something still deeply concerning to the cyrptocurrency community: bitcoin hacking. The rogue state is alleged by South Korea to have been intentionally targeting bitcoin exchanges, albeit rather poorly, like its missile technology. …

This Chinese startup you’ve never heard of is raising $3B on a $28B valuation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Chinese e-commerce company Meituan Dianping, which no one in the West likely has ever heard of, is close to finalizing a $3 billion venture capital fundraising on a $28 billion valuation, making it the fifth largest tech startup in the world. Previous investor Tencent …

Lyft signs deal with Ford in race to put self-driving cars on US roads

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Lyft Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with the Ford Motor Co. that will see the two companies working together to deliver self-driving vehicles to American roads by 2021. The deal, announced late Tuesday, will involve employees from both companies working together to develop …

800 pages: Journalist discovers Tinder records staggering amounts of personal information

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Anyone who uses a service online knows that the company behind it gathers personal information. Just how much information some companies store has now been exposed by a European journalist who requested data from Tinder and received a staggering 800 pages in …

Nearly 1,000 websites found running cryptomining code that hijacks computers

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The number of websites injecting visitors’ computers with JavaScript code that is used to mine for cryptocurrency is rapidly growing, according to new research detecting nearly 1,000 sites now partaking in the practice. Security firm RiskIQ Inc. today said it made the discovery, finding …

Vacuum cleaner maker Dyson to take on Tesla with its own electric car

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Upscale vacuum cleaner maker Dyson Ltd. wants to take the good fight to Tesla Inc., announcing that it plans to build an electric car that will go on sale in 2020. Company founder James Dyson revealed the plans in an email to …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bitcoin Investment Trust application withdrawn over fears of SEC rejection

Whole Foods point-of-sale terminals hacked, credit card data stolen

Self-driving car technology startup Drive.ai raises $15M from Uber rival Grab

IKEA acquires TaskRabbit to help customers assemble furniture

North Korea hacking bitcoin exchanges along with threatening nuclear war

This Chinese startup you’ve never heard of is raising $3B on a $28B valuation

Lyft signs deal with Ford in race to put self-driving cars on US roads

800 pages: Journalist discovers Tinder records staggering amounts of personal information

Nearly 1,000 websites found running cryptomining code that hijacks computers

Vacuum cleaner maker Dyson to take on Tesla with its own electric car

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