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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

Russian man receives record sentence for credit card hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The son of a Russian lawmaker who was convicted in August on 38 counts related to his hacking of point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers on the darknet has received a record sentence for his crimes. Thirty-two-year-old Roman Valerevich …

Stealth AI chip maker founded by ex-Google engineers raises $10.3M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A stealth startup founded by a number of Google Inc. veterans who may be working on next-generation artificial intelligence-based computer chips has raised $10.3 million in venture capital funding, according to one report. CNBC stumbled across the funding round for the company …

Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

San Francisco-based machine learning data management startup SafeGraph Inc. has raised a $16 million funding round led by IDG Ventures USA that included more than 100 high-profile individual investors. Among the investors in the unusual Series A round are Peter Thiel, Adam D’Angelo, …

Bose headphones are spying on users, lawsuit alleges

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A lawsuit filed against American high-end electronics maker Bose Corp. alleges that the company is spying on its users via an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to. According to the filing lodged in the U.S. District …

Hacking group OurMine claims responsibility for mass YouTube hack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

OurMine, the hacking group behind the hacks of Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai and others, has claimed responsibility for a mass hack of YouTube that it claims is the largest in the site’s history. The hack, launched on Good …

Microsoft acquires company run by former Word and Excel head Charles Simonyi

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday acquired productivity software firm Intentional Software Inc., a Bellevue, Washington-based company founded by Charles Simonyi, a former Microsoft employee who oversaw the development of both Word and Excel before leaving the company. Founded in 2002, Intentional Software builds upon the …

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