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

Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite to proceed as shareholders bless deal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp.’s acquisition is of NetSuite Inc. will proceed after the company announced Saturday that more than half of eligible NetSuite shareholders had backed the $9.3 billion deal. The magic number for the deal was 50 percent approval. Some 21.8 million unaffiliated …

88 percent of smartphones shipped in Q3 run Android

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Any question that the smartphone wars are over has been put to rest again with a new report showing that nearly nine out of 10 phones shipped in the last quarter were running Google’s Android operating system. The report from Strategy Analytics …

Intel acquires live sports virtual reality firm Voke

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has acquired live sports virtual reality firm Voke for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004, Voke specializes in providing technology that allows media companies to build live and on-demand virtual reality experiences across multiple mediums, including on their own channels …

‘Digital life’ search startup Atlas Informatics raises $20.7 million

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Seattle-based search startup Atlas Informatics Inc. has raised $20.7 million in a round whose investors include Microsoft Corp., former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold and Aspect Ventures. Founded in 2015, the company currently offers Atlas Recall, a “search engine for your …

Qualcomm earnings outpace forecasts thanks to Chinese patent deals

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. reported a better-than-expected rise in revenue for the fourth quarter ending Sept. 30 assisted by strong demand from China. The semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company reported revenue of $6.2 billion for the quarter on net income of $1.6 billion, …

Researchers discover macOS malware using Google’s Adwords

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Researchers at security firm Cylance Inc. have discovered a new malvertising campaign that targets Apple Inc.’s macOS users through fake software downloads. Disturbingly being offered on Google’s Adwords advertising network, the malvertising offers a copy of Google’s own Chrome web browser. If …

IBM acquires Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant XPS

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. has acquired Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant Expert Personal Shopper from digital commerce firm Fluid Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Built using machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver expert advice that sounds like it’s coming from an actual human, XPS …

Uber and GM announce car rental trial for drivers in San Francisco

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. and General Motors Co. have signed a new deal that will see the automotive giant rent cars to Uber drivers through its Maven rental service. The deal, announced Tuesday, will initially begin as a 90-day trial in Uber’s hometown …

Owner of cyber attack service Titanium Stresser owner pleads guilty

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A man accused of running cyber attack-for-hire service Titanium Stresser has pleaded guilty to multiples charges in relation to his ownership and use of the service. Nineteen-year-old Adam Mudd from Kings Langley, a town north of London in the United Kingdom, pleaded …

Palantir beats the Army over battle to allow project bid

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has won a case against the United States Army in which it claimed it was unfairly shut out of the bid process to work on the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System. According to Bloomberg, the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite to proceed as shareholders bless deal

88 percent of smartphones shipped in Q3 run Android

Intel acquires live sports virtual reality firm Voke

‘Digital life’ search startup Atlas Informatics raises $20.7 million

Qualcomm earnings outpace forecasts thanks to Chinese patent deals

Researchers discover macOS malware using Google’s Adwords

IBM acquires Watson-based cognitive shopping assistant XPS

Owner of cyber attack service Titanium Stresser owner pleads guilty

Palantir beats the Army over battle to allow project bid

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