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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Windows Phone Devs claim Google is trying to strangle platform by cutting advertising

Is Google Inc., trying to strangle the viability of developers creating apps for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone by cutting back their ad returns? That what at least some Windows Phone developers believe, with reports over the weekend that ads returns from Google’s AdMob mobile advertising service plummeted off a cliff following the announcement at Microsoft’s ...

Honduras to use Bitcoin Blockchain tech to run its land registry

The Blockchain, best known as the ledger technology underlying Bitcoin transactions, is now being considered for other uses, and in one Central American country it’s about to be used for something completely new: land title tracking. The Government of Honduras announced last week a deal with Texas-based Blockchain company Factom Inc. that will see the country implement ...

Beep beep: Google’s self-driving cars are hitting the roads of Mountain View

Residents of Mountain View, CA are in for a treat with word from Google early Friday that their self-driving Google cars are graduating from the Googleplex and are migrating into the surrounding streets. In a post to the Official Google Blog Chris Urmson, the Director of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project explained that “a few of the ...

Come fly with me: United offers FF points in new bug bounty program

United Airlines, Inc. has launched a new bug bounty program that rewards those who find security flaws with frequent flyer points. According to reports, the new program provides the points in return for those who report flaws on United’s website and mobile app; not surprisingly though the program excludes finding flaws with onboard Wi-Fi, entertainment ...

Would you like Candy Crush with Win10? you won’t have a choice

Would you like Candy Crush with your copy of Windows 10? If the answer is no, tough luck, because you’re not going to have a choice. Microsoft announced Thursday that King Digital Entertainment PLC’s Candy Crush Saga will come preinstalled with all copies of Windows 10.announced Thursday that King Digital Entertainment PLC’s Candy Crush Saga ...

Trigger warning: Ellen Pao panders to SJWs and bans “harassment” on Reddit

The influence of interim Reddit Inc. CEO Ellen Pao became more apparent Thursday with the announcement that the widely popular site was cracking down on alleged cases of harassment. In an announcement to the Reddit blog that would shock many long-term Reddit users, the “Reddit team” wrote that they were “unhappy with harassing behavior on Reddit.” “We’ve ...

Enterprise cloud comms firm Actiance raises $28 million

Actiance Inc. has raised a new late-stage growth investment of $28 million in a round that included new investor Golub Capital, along with previous investors Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, JK&B Capital, Scale Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Founded in 1998, Actiance offers an enterprise-grade platform that can be integrated into existing infrastructure to improve internal ...

Five in a row: Cisco beats the market again with stellar quarterly financials

The last quarter was a good one for Cisco Systems Inc. with the networking giant beating market expectations for the fifth straight quarter in a row. Cisco reported Q3 2015 revenue of $12.14 billion, up 5 percent on the same quarter in 2014, with earnings per share coming in at 47 cents GAAP, 54 cents non-GAAP. ...

Ubisoft games coming to a virtual reality headset near you in 2016

The second coming of virtual reality is all talk, little action so far, but with the Facebook Inc. owned Oculus Rift due for release next year, Lazarus may well rise from the dead. One of the keys to virtual reality taking off in 2015 versus the 1990s will be content, and there was great news ...

New Relic shares rise after data analytics firm beats market forecasts with quarterly financials

New Relic Inc. shares rose in after-hours trading Tuesday after the data analytics firm beat market forecasts with their quarterly financials. The company reported revenue of $33.4 million for the quarter, up 68 percent compared with the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 and 15 percent from the third quarter of fiscal 2015. GAAP loss from ...