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

Mobile authentication startup KryptCo launches with $1.2M in funding

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Mobile authentication startup KryptCo Inc. has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to help software developers protect their encryption keys. The brand-new company founded this year by two former Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, Alex Grinman and Kevin King, in conjunction with …

Contractor charged in leaked NSA report alleging Russian election-hacking attempts

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A woman has been arrested and charged over the leak of National Security Agency documents that allege that Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit attempted to hack local government election officials. Reality Leigh Winner (pictured), a 25-year-old federal contractor from Atlanta, has been charged …

Snap snaps up advertising analytics startup Placed for $125M

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has acquired Placed Inc., a Seattle-based startup that offers advertising analytics. Although the price of the deal was not officially disclosed, Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, put the price at $125 million. The startup will …

Report: Bitcoin exchange Coinbase looking to raise $100M on a $1B valuation

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase Inc. is looking to raise a new round of $100 million on a valuation of $1 billion, according to reports first published Friday. The company, founded in 2012, offers an online platform that allows merchants, consumers and traders to transact …

In a new twist, Jaff ransomware linked to dark web forum owners

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

It’s well-known in cybersecurity circles that those behind various forms of malware often sell the data they steal on the dark web, the sometimes shady sites reachable only through specialized software. Now, in an interesting twist, a dark web forum may be …

Report: Alphabet’s Waymo now working on self-driving trucks

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car unit, is now exploring self-driving trucks, according to a report from Reuters late Thursday. “We’re taking our eight years of experience in building self-driving hardware and software and conducting a technical exploration into how our technology can integrate …

Web 2.0 era social bookmarking darling Delicious to close after 14 years

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Web 2.0 era social bookmarking service Delicious is no longer. The pioneering site is set to shut down after being acquired by a company called Nine Fives Software Inc. that runs a competing service called Pinboard. Founded in 2003, Delicious, originally styled as …

Google confirms that future versions of Chrome will block ‘annoying’ ads

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Future versions of Google Inc.’s Chrome web browser will have an ad blocker of sorts built in and turned on by default, the search giant announced on Thursday. The built-in ad blocker in Chrome, which was first rumored in April, isn’t an ad blocker …

Motorcycle gang accused of stealing 150-plus Jeep Wranglers by hacking them

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

When most people think of outlaw motorcycle gangs, they might think of drug dealing, gang wars and large men with facial hair on even larger bikes. Now, in a strange story out of Southern California, hacking can now be added to that …

With new partnership, IBM and Cisco team up to fight cybercrime

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Security are teaming up to fight cybercrime together with a partnership that will see the two companies collaborating on products, services and threat intelligence for the benefit of both their sets of customers. At the top of the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Mobile authentication startup KryptCo launches with $1.2M in funding

Contractor charged in leaked NSA report alleging Russian election-hacking attempts

Snap snaps up advertising analytics startup Placed for $125M

Report: Bitcoin exchange Coinbase looking to raise $100M on a $1B valuation

In a new twist, Jaff ransomware linked to dark web forum owners

Report: Alphabet’s Waymo now working on self-driving trucks

Web 2.0 era social bookmarking darling Delicious to close after 14 years

Google confirms that future versions of Chrome will block ‘annoying’ ads

Motorcycle gang accused of stealing 150-plus Jeep Wranglers by hacking them

With new partnership, IBM and Cisco team up to fight cybercrime

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