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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

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 …

Storage provider Nexsan to be spun off from parent Imation

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Unified storage provider Nexsan Inc. is to become a private company once more through a deal with Spear Point Capital Management that will see it spun out from parent company Imation Corp. Under the deal announced Tuesday, Imation Chief Executive Officer Bob Fernander …

Dataguise launches DgSecure data governance support for AWS

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Big Data solutions firm Dataguise Inc. has announced that their DgSecure solution for global sensitive data governance now supports data discovery on Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, as well as Amazon Simple Storage Service. Support for Amazon products was announced at the …

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