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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Samsung upgrades earning projections as Galaxy S7 sales go gangbusters

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have revised their earnings projection for the first quarter upwards, as its flagship Galaxy S7 phone has won over the buying public and is proverbially going gangbusters in sales. Samsung said in a press release that it expected an operating profit for the first quarter to come in at 6.6 trillion won ...

First attempt: Reddit launches its first official smartphone apps, despite it being 2016 already

Social new forum Reddit, Inc. has launched its first official smartphone apps. The official Reddit app for iOS and Android is the first time, despite the site being founded in 2005 and the current year being 2016, the highly popular site has offered its own apps, and they are described as being “sleek, simple apps ...

Oops: FBI confesses it can’t hack later iPhone models

In a surprise turn of events the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that the method it used to gain access to the iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernadino terrorists won’t work on later iPhone models. The revelation came from FBI Director James Comey in a speech at Kenyon University where ...

Report: Google, Verizon interested in bidding for Yahoo

As expected Verizon Communications, Inc. is set to make a bid to acquire Yahoo, Inc. next week, but in an unexpected turn of events they may be joined by Google, Inc., according to a report Thursday. Bloomberg claims that Verizon will also offer to acquire Yahoo Japan (currently majority owned by SoftBank Group Corp.) to ...

Craig Steven Wright may out himself as Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto in coming weeks

An Australian man previously identified as possibly being Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is believed to be close to officially outing himself. According to a report from The Financial Times Craig Steven Wright is preparing to officially make the announcement and that he is looking for backing in his verification from some of the industry’s biggest ...

New Brave browser will pay users Bitcoin to view advertising

Would you like to be paid Bitcoin to view advertising while browsing the web? If the answer is either yes or you’ve never thought about it before but it sounds like a great idea, you’re going to like the Brave browser (Brave Software, Inc.), a new browser set to launch in May that will do exactly ...

Google is pitching its polling service at journos, politicians … also, Google has a polling division

Rasmussen, Gallop, Nielsen. If those names are not familiar, they’re among the top political polling organizations in the United States and Google is wanting to add itself to the list. According to politics site The Hill, the Alphabet, Inc.-owned search giant is pitching a service called “Google Consumer Surveys” to staffers and operatives who work for ...

Yahoo tells potential buyers that its revenue is in free-fall

Financial projections given to potential buyers of Yahoo, Inc. show that the company is in serious free-fall, according to a report Wednesday. A copy of what is known as the “sales book” was seen by Kara Swisher at Re/Code and is said to show that Yahoo expects its revenue to drop by 15 percent for ...

If they only had a heart: Nest might compensate bricked Revolv smart device owners … maybe

It may have been the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz who wanted a heart, but perhaps some of the folks at smart home device maker Nest Labs, Inc. may have magically discovered one as well with news that the company may offer compensation to those affected by its decision to brick Revolv smart ...

Mimecast launches new email security cloud service as research shows whaling is on the rise

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast Ltd has announced the general availability of Impersonation Protect, a new service billed as the first cloud product that directly combats spear-phishing email attacks where company officers are impersonated, also known by names including CEO Fraud, Business Email Compromise or whaling. The new product uses advanced scanning techniques to prevent ...