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

Textio, a company that uses machine learning to write job ads, raises $20M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Textio Inc., a Seattle-based startup that uses machine learning to provide “augmented writing” for companies advertising for new staff, has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The Series B round was led by Scale Venture Partners and included previous investors Emergence …

Adobe buys virtual reality software plugin SkyBox

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired SkyBox, a software plugin that connects Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to various Adobe products. As part of the deal, Chris Bobotis, co-founder of SkyBox creator Mettle Inc., is joining Adobe as …

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns following shareholder revolt

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned late Tuesday as chief executive officer of the ride-hailing giant following a shareholder revolt over his troubled tenure. First reported by The New York Times and not confirmed officially by Uber as of midnight PDT Tuesday, …

Microsoft admits disabling outside antivirus software as antitrust case looms

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a surprising twist to a possible forthcoming antitrust trial, Microsoft Corp. has admitted that it does disable some third-party antivirus software, but only because of compatibility issues. The admission comes following a complaint Russian antivirus software maker Kaspersky Lab filed with the European Commission and …

Skype suffers serious outage after possible denial-of-service attack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.-owned messaging service Skype suffered a serious outage Tuesday that affected users across the United States, Europe and parts of Asia. The cause of the outage has not been officially revealed. Skype said only that it was aware “of an incident …

Apple argues Qualcomm is illegally double-dipping with royalty payments

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has escalated its argument in its patent royalties case against Qualcomm Technologies Inc. with a new filing arguing that its licensing agreement with the chip maker is invalid because it constitutes illegal double-dipping. The $1 billion lawsuit, filed by Apple …

South Korean web host pays record $1M after ransomware attack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A South Korean hosting company has paid what is believed to be a record high payment after their servers were taken over by ransomware. The attack, which targeted the Internet company Nayana Inc., saw 153 Linux servers at the company hosting 3,400 websites …

Mexican government caught illegally attempting to hack phones

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a case that some may regard as “cultural appropriation” from its cousin north of the border, the Mexican government has been caught attempting to illegally hack phones through the use of a coordinated malware campaign that targeted journalists, lawyers and political activists. …

Another bill aims to let local and state governments set their own drone regulations

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Fresh from a previous bill that would decentralize drone regulations, a new bipartisan bill presented to the House of Representatives Monday proposes that state and local governments be allowed to make their own laws on drones flying within their jurisdictions. The Drone Innovation …

Countering public cloud trend, Dropbox announces big expansion to its in-house data hosting

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cloud storage provider Dropbox Inc. has announced that it is massively expanding its edge network 15 months after it decided to leave Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud to host its data in-house. The expansion will see the yet-to-go-public startup deploy its own custom-built …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Textio, a company that uses machine learning to write job ads, raises $20M

Adobe buys virtual reality software plugin SkyBox

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns following shareholder revolt

Microsoft admits disabling outside antivirus software as antitrust case looms

Skype suffers serious outage after possible denial-of-service attack

Apple argues Qualcomm is illegally double-dipping with royalty payments

South Korean web host pays record $1M after ransomware attack

Mexican government caught illegally attempting to hack phones

Another bill aims to let local and state governments set their own drone regulations

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