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

Shadow Brokers releases list of servers hacked by the NSA

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Notorious hacking group the Shadow Brokers is back in the news after it published a list of servers claimed to have been compromised by the National Security Agency-linked Equation Group. The group had previously claimed to have hacked the Equation Group and …

New device can hijack consumer drones using widespread vulnerability

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new device revealed at a security conference in Japan last week can hijack consumer drones, by exploiting a vulnerability in the frequency-hopping systems used to protect radio communications between an operator and the drone itself. The “Icarus” device, a form of …

Toyota invests $10 million in car sharing service Getaround

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Toyota Motor Corp. has invested in San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing service Getaround Inc. through its Mirai Creation Investment Limited Partnership, in a Series C round believed to be $10 million. Founded in 2009, the company calls itself an “on-demand carsharing community” that …

IPO train keeps chugging as Blackline surges on debut

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Shares in enterprise Software as a Service startup Blackline Inc. surged on the Nasdaq Friday in another sign of the markets growing thirst for tech initial public offerings. Offering shares at $17 each, higher than an initial price guidance of $13 to $15 …

Pennsylvania man gets 18 months in prison for hacking celebrity nudes

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A man involved in the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in private images of celebrities appearing online has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Ryan Collins, 36, from Pennsylvania had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized …

LinkedIn books a third-quarter profit as it heads into Microsoft’s hands

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

LinkedIn Corp. beat market expectations Thursday with its third-quarter financials in what may be its last published figures before being acquired by Microsoft Corp. Revenue in the third quarter came in at $960 million, up 23 percent over the same quarter in 2015 …

Qualcomm to acquire rival NXP for $47 billion in all-cash deal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has announced plans to acquire rival firm NXP Semiconductors N.V. in an all-cash deal for $110 a share, totaling $47 billion, the company announced Thursday. Founded in 2006 and based in the Netherlands, NXP is best known for co-inventing …

BlackBerry launches its last official phone, the unimaginatively named DTEK60

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A few weeks after announcing that it was no longer going to make phones, BlackBerry Ltd. launched its last official phone Wednesday, aimed squarely at corporate customers. The unimaginatively named DTEK60 is an Android-powered device that includes a 5.5-inch QuadHD display with 2,560 x …

Tesla earns surprise profit thanks to reduced costs, higher vehicle sales

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

It turns out that making electric, semi-autonomous vehicles can be profitable after all: Tesla Motors Inc. Wednesday posted an unexpected profit in the third quarter. The electric vehicle and battery company managed $2.15 billion in revenues for the quarter, up 145 percent over …

BitPay to launch new bitcoin wallet using Intel’s chip-level security

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin payments startup BitPay Inc. has announced a new secure bitcoin wallet that uses Intel Corp.’s security extension hardware to safeguard security. An updated version of BitPay’s original bitcoin wallet called Copay, the new release integrates with Intel’s Software Guard Extensions which …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Shadow Brokers releases list of servers hacked by the NSA

New device can hijack consumer drones using widespread vulnerability

Toyota invests $10 million in car sharing service Getaround

IPO train keeps chugging as Blackline surges on debut

Pennsylvania man gets 18 months in prison for hacking celebrity nudes

LinkedIn books a third-quarter profit as it heads into Microsoft’s hands

Qualcomm to acquire rival NXP for $47 billion in all-cash deal

BlackBerry launches its last official phone, the unimaginatively named DTEK60

Tesla earns surprise profit thanks to reduced costs, higher vehicle sales

BitPay to launch new bitcoin wallet using Intel’s chip-level security

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