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

Report: Amazon is bringing Alexa to call centers

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 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 RILEY10 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 RILEY10 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 RILEY10 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 RILEY10 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 …

Man sentenced to jail time following drone crash that injured two people

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A Seattle man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after his drone crashed and injured two people. Paul M. Skinner, 38, was operating the drone during the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade when he lost control of the device. He was subsequently …

Data on Yelp, 4chan, bitcoin sites and more exposed in Cloudbleed breach, but experts urge calm

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Even the partial list of sites affected by Cloudbleed, the monumental security failure by content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. that exposed sensitive information including passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users, includes hundreds of popular sites. Published by a user …

Drones are now being used to speed up insurance claims

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Over the past few years non-military drones have been deployed for an increasing number of uses, delivering everything from medical supplies to 7-Eleven Slurpees. Now, they’re going to deliver … insurance assessments. Australian-owned global insurance company QBE Insurance Group Ltd. is now using drones to better …

Report: SoftBank could invest up to $4B in co-working firm WeWork

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Co-working firm WeWork Inc. is negotiating an investment from SoftBank that could be as high as $4 billion, according to a report published Sunday by CNBC. The deal is said to involve an initial investment of $2 billion followed by a secondary round …

Samsung announces new Gear VR headset with a motion-sensitive controller

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new Gear VR headset with a controller powered by Facebook Inc.’s Oculus at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sunday. The new virtual reality headset itself only has minor changes over the last version of the headset …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

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

Man sentenced to jail time following drone crash that injured two people

Data on Yelp, 4chan, bitcoin sites and more exposed in Cloudbleed breach, but experts urge calm

Drones are now being used to speed up insurance claims

Report: SoftBank could invest up to $4B in co-working firm WeWork

Samsung announces new Gear VR headset with a motion-sensitive controller

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