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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Report: GitHub looking to raise $200m on a $2b Unicorn valuation

Git repository hosting service GitHub, Inc. is said to be looking to raise a Series B round of $200 million. According to Bloomberg Business, who quotes “people familiar with the matter,” the new round will be on a Unicorn valuation of $2 billion. Founded in 2008, GitHub has become arguably the most popular Git hosting ...

Trans-Tasman inventory management SaaS firm Unleashed Software raises $3.5m Series B

Inventory management software as a service (SaaS) developer Unleashed Software Pty. Ltd. has raised AU$4.5 million ($3.5 million) Series B in a round that included MYOB founder Craig Wrinkler. Founded in 2009, the Trans-Tasman (Australia/ New Zealand) based company offers a SaaS platform that provides accurate inventory management  in real-time for the small, medium and ...

Chinese taxi hailing firm Didi Kuaidi looking to raise $1.5b+ on $15b valuation

Chinese taxi hailing app Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc.,) the combined company from previous competitors KuaiDi Dache and Didi Dache, is said to be seeking to raise atleast $1.5 billion. According to Bloomberg Business, the first round for the newly combined company will be on a valuation of $15 billion. Didi Kauidi itself came into ...

Spotify soft-launches new music recommendations service “Taste Rewind”

Spotify AG has soft-launched a new product called Spotify Taste Rewind, that suggests songs from the past you might like based on musicians you currently like. Announced by Spotify Engineer Juan Manuel Serruya on Facebook, the new service is pitched with the lines: “Ever wondered which artists you would be listening to if you were ...

Alibaba to launch Netflix-style online video streaming service in China

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced Sunday that it was planning to launch a Netflix-style online video streaming service in China. According to reports, the new service will be called Tmall Box Office (TBO,) and like Netflix will feature a mix of original content, along with content for providers both within China and from abroad. “Our ...

Olala: French company launches the world’s first smart bikini to stop you getting sunburned

Because you can never have enough internet connected devices, a French company has launched the worlds first Connected Bikini (in French: bikini connecté.) The idea for the bikini came from the designer seeing sunburned people at a beach, with Marie Spinali, Head of Design at Spinali, the company behind the design, telling The Telegraph the project ...

FTC takes legal action against Kickstarter that didn’t deliver or issue refunds

In the first case of its kind involving crowdfunding, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that it had taken legal action against a Kickstarter project founder who raised money for the project, then both failed to deliver the product and refused to give refunds. According to the FTC’s complaint, Erik Chevalier, doing business under ...

Report: Blackberry preparing to launch an Android powered smartphone

The days of Blackberry Ltd. flogging phones running its own operating system may be nearing an end with a report Thursday suggesting that the company is preparing to sell a phone running Android. The report from Reuters quotes “four sources familiar with the matter” saying that a phone that Blackberry showed at the Mobile World ...

New Xcode release allows sideloading of pirated apps and emulators on iOS

Putting pirated applications and emulators on an iOS device has now become easier with news that Apple now allows non-paid up developers to sideload applications on their devices via the new version of XCode. The latest version of Apple’s integrated development environment for OSX and iOS, XCode 7, now allows anyone to install apps on ...

To the moon! Pornhub seeking $3.4m on Indiegogo to film world’s first space porno

Adult video streaming site Pornhub wants to take one small step for man, and one giant leap for pornography with a new crowdfunding campaign to raise money to shoot the world’s first pornography film in space. The “Pornhub Space Program” project, known as “Sexploration” (we should note we’re not making any of this up,) aims ...