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

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Quoine/ Econtext deal delivers Bitcoin payment option to 20,000 merchants in Japan

Bitcoin trading platform Quoine Pte. Ltd. has signed a new deal with Econtext Asia Ltd. that will see Bitcoin being available as an option for payments at 20,000 Japanese retailers for the first time. The arrangement provides Bitcoin payments through Econtext’s existing merchant network throughout Japan, and although initially Bitcoin payments will only be available ...

Aeris launches new advanced M2M and IoT analytics service AerVoyance

End-to-end Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) service provider Aeris Communcations, Inc. has today launched AerVoyance, a new M2M and IoT analytics service. The new service is said to provide customers with significant advantages in managing their connected device programs, catering for the need to make sense of the enormous amount of data continuously ...

Was always going to happen: Circa news app closes after failing to find a buyer

Circa 1605, Inc., the makers of the Circa News application, have ceased trading after failing to find a buyer for the site. The site went on the market in April after the company failed to raise a new round of funding to keep it going. Despite suggestions of several potential buyers at the time, none ...

Want to earn Bitcoin while playing Minecraft? Well now you can

Do you like playing Minecraft and wouldn’t mind earning some Bitcoin along the way? OK, so that’s not something many would have pondered before, but now you actually can, with prominent Minecraft server PlayMC now offering that very feature. The service, dubbed by the company as its “Bitconomy,” allows players to earn Bits, a domination ...

SEC investigating notorious corporate insider trading hackers FIN4

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are investigating notorious hacking group FIN4 over allegations that they have been using hacked information to profit from share trading. To make matters even more interesting, Reuters quotes “people familiar with the matter“ as saying that the SEC has approached at least eight listed companies to provide details of ...

Report: CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir, raising $500m Series I on $20b valuation

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. is said to be raising $500 million Series I on a $20 billion valuation. According to reports, the new round of funding apparently reflects investors’ eagerness to gain access to a startup seen as one of the most successful in the world, although many probably haven’t even heard ...

Bad idea: why Google shouldn’t be involved in removing revenge porn on its own volition

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H Jackson, famed jurist and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A funny thing is happening in the second decade in the 21st ...

They’re back: Foursquare returns mayorships to its Swarm geolocation check-in app

Foursquare, Inc. announced Monday that mayorships are back in their geolocation check-in app Swarm. The feature, one of the original features of Foursquare before it pivoted into a places to visit recommendation app, allowed users who checked into places to earn “mayorships” if they had checked in the most times at that location. The game ...

Docker, CoreOS declare peace in the container wars and join the Open Container Project

The combatants in the “container wars” have declared peace with an announcement Monday that they are joining forces to create the Open Container Project (OCP), chartered to establish common standards for software containers. The project sees rival container providers CoreOS, Inc. and Docker, Inc. joining the group, along with a long list of interested parties ...

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

Indian cryptocurrency startup Trestor has completed a successful trial of its digital currency Trest in the African nation of Cameroon, demonstrating how altcoin can play a role within the third world. The pilot program included the Cameroon government and Socapssi, an organization created in Cameroon to bridge the gap between the informal and national insurance ...