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

Line plans Siri-like ‘Clova’ chatbot after acquiring AI firm Vinclu

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Line Corp. is moving into artificial intelligence with the acquisition Thursday of a controlling stake in the Japanese holographic AI firm Vinclu. Line, best-known in Asia for its social chat app, said at Mobile World Congress that it intends to launch a …

Marissa Mayer forgoes bonuses as Yahoo admits it messed up hacking investigation

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Outgoing Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is giving up her 2016 bonus and any stock award for this year in the wake of the disastrous hacking scandals that plagued the company in 2016. Mayer’s seemingly benevolent gesture was made at …

Popular Android password managers fail security test

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

New research from TeamSIK, a group of security professionals from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Germany, has found that popular Android password managers suffer from serious vulnerabilities that can expose user credentials. The research tested nine Android password managers:, My Passwords, …

Failed drone maker Lily files for bankruptcy as it struggles to refund customers

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Drone company Lily Robotics Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it ceased trading in January and promised to refund pre-orders from more than 60,000 customers. The company, founded in 2013, had promised via a crowdfunding campaign to deliver a self-flying camera drone …

Microsoft, Intel, banks and others form enterprise blockchain alliance

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Accenture PLC and others have joined forces to establish the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, a new body dedicated to developing Ethereum into an enterprise-grade blockchain platform. Backed by more than 30 firms, including Credit Suisse, UBS, Bank of …

Report: Amazon is bringing Alexa to call centers

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services is developing a commercial version of Alexa designed to manage call centers, according to a report from The Information. The report claims the Alexa-powered platform, currently code-named “Lily,” will be able to answer some questions asked by incoming phone calls as …

Palo Alto Networks acquires LightCyber for $105M, but earnings miss tanks stock

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Palo Alto Networks Inc. on Tuesday acquired behavioral attack detection firm LightCyber Ltd. for $105 million in an all-cash deal. But just a few hours later, the maker of security firewalls reported second-quarter revenues that missed Wall Street forecasts. The company also provided fiscal …

AI hiring platform startup Belong raises $10M from Sequoia Capital

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence-based hiring platform startup Belong Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has raised a $10 million later-stage funding round led by Sequoia Capital India. Founded in 2014, the Bangalore-based company claims to help organizations discover, engage and hire relevant talent at the right time …

Teddy bear data breach exposes 2 million private recordings between parents and kids

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A massive data breach at a company that produces Internet-connected toys has exposed passwords, emails and more than 2 million private recorded messages between parents and their children. The breach, discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt, involved data coming from Spiral Toys Inc., …

Google open-sources its end-to-end email encryption plugin for Chrome

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. has announced that its experimental end-to-end encryption system E2Email is being released as open source code. The Chrome plugin and its underlying code allows users to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and verify signed messages within their browser using OpenPGP, a protocol …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Line plans Siri-like ‘Clova’ chatbot after acquiring AI firm Vinclu

Marissa Mayer forgoes bonuses as Yahoo admits it messed up hacking investigation

Popular Android password managers fail security test

Failed drone maker Lily files for bankruptcy as it struggles to refund customers

Microsoft, Intel, banks and others form enterprise blockchain alliance

Report: Amazon is bringing Alexa to call centers

Palo Alto Networks acquires LightCyber for $105M, but earnings miss tanks stock

AI hiring platform startup Belong raises $10M from Sequoia Capital

Teddy bear data breach exposes 2 million private recordings between parents and kids

Google open-sources its end-to-end email encryption plugin for Chrome

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