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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

Maker of intelligent assistant app Accompany raises $20M round

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Intelligent assistant app maker Accompani Inc. has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Ignition Partners with the participation of Charles River Ventures. Founded in 2013, the startup sells an app called Accompany that is marketed as an intelligent, …

Uber buys Geometric Intelligence to expand its push into AI

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has expanded its push into artificial intelligence through the acquisition of New York City-based Geometric Intelligence Inc., a company that is making an ambitious attempt to do machine learning more efficiently from less data. Under the deal, Geometric Intelligence’s …

Apple said to be deploying drones to improve its Maps app

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

There is unlikely to be an Apple-branded drone anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the tech giant isn’t fond of using them: Multiple reports claim that Apple Inc. is planning to use drones to enhance its Maps app. According to Bloomberg quoting …

Global law enforcement agencies bring down Avalanche botnet network

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A botnet network at one stage responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks globally has been brought down following a four-year investigation by global law enforcement agencies. The Avalanche network is estimated to involve hundreds of thousands of infected computers worldwide. As part …

Amazon enters the DDoS mitigation business with AWS Shield

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services has entered the distributed denial of service mitigation business with a new service launched at the re:Invite conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Called AWS Shield, the new managed service protects web applications against DDoS attacks in conjunction with Elastic …

Ad-tech firm AppNexus files for IPO on a $1.5B-$2B valuation

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Advertising technology startup AppNexus Inc. has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering according to reports Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal claims that the company is seeking the go public on a valuation between $1.5 billion and $2 billion though notes …

Amazon and Techstars team up to launch the Alexa Accelerator program

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. and tech startup accelerator TechStars have joined forces to launch the Alexa Accelerator, a new accelerator to support early-stage startups building services for Amazon’s artificial intelligence platform. Run in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa fund, the Alexa Accelerator will focus on …

Amazon launches Lightsail virtual private server

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Automattic Inc.’s WordPress content management system currently holds a 59 percent market share in content management systems, powering 27 percent of all sites on the Internet, thanks to its ease of use. By contrast, anyone wanting to host WordPress on Amazon Web …

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