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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Cisco’s annual security report finds enterprises less confident about defense strategies

Cisco Systems, Inc. has delivered its annual security report, with the company finding that enterprises are less confident about their abilities to defend themselves from bad actors in the future. The report notes that defender confidence in the enterprise is dropping, with only 45 percent of global organizations worldwide confident in their security relative to ...

Facebook delivers an epic FU to China with new Android app to have Tor support built in

Facebook, Inc. has announced that its Android App will now come with Tor network support, allowing users to access the social networking service in countries where it is currently unavailable… and by that they mean China. The new version of the Facebook app, which will be available to all users who don’t have an Apple ...

Netflix continues to thrive with Q4 financials seeing it grow to 74.76m subscribers

Netflix, Inc. continues to thrive with the online streaming company adding a record number of new subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2015. The company, which announced its final global expansion two weeks ago, booked 5.59 million new subscribers for the quarter, ahead of an original projection of 5.15 million. International expansion, in a quarter ...

Bitcoin financial services company First Global Credit now offering access to the London Stock Exchange

Bitcoin financial services company First Global Credit, Inc. has expanded its offering with customers now able to invest in a range of stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Launched in 2014 First Global Credit offers users the ability to use Bitcoin as a collateral margin to trade traditional equities. The company delivers the ...

LOL: Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy now claims it was hacked, tried to trade its way out of insolvency

The saga of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) has taken a turn for the absurd with the exchange now claiming it was hacked. In a post on the Cryptsy blog, founder Paul “BigVern” Vernon claims that trojan malware was inserted into Cryptsy’s code by the developer of Lucky7Coin giving access to the company’s ...

Apple confesses to iPhone 6S battery percentage bug, promises to fix the problem eventually

If you own an iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus that mysteriously goes flat despite showing the battery still has a charge, it turns out you’re not imagining things: the phones have a bug. Apple is “investigating the cause and a solution” to the problem, which reportedly involves the percentage of charge remaining on the ...

Mike Hearn “Bitcoin is dead” coverage fails to note that he’s a paid shill for Blockchain company R3

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. A funny thing happened in the Bitcoin world late last week with Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn quit his ...

Netflix announces premiere dates for 11 shows, Marvel’s Jessica Jones gets a second season

Leading online streaming media service Netflix, Inc. has announced the launch dates for eleven new and returning original shows, including the announcements that popular fan favorite Marvel’s Jessica Jones will return for a second season and some of the lineup for the forthcoming series, the U.S. remake of the British series Black Mirror. Launched in November ...

AOL is considering ditching its name due to most people thinking its an email service

AOL, Inc. may soon be known by another name with a senior executive stating at the weekend that the company may soon ditch its name. Chief Marketing Officer Allie Kline floated the move with Business Insider, stating that people still relate the name to an email service and don’t realize instead that its primary business ...

New Rapid7 survey finds enterprise security overwhelmed in challenging threat environment

Security firm Rapid7, LLC has released the results of its 2015 Incident Detection and Response Survey that found that organizations have become overwhelmed as the security threat environment continues to provide increased challenges. The company surveyed hundreds of security professionals at organizations of varied sizes across the globe on their biggest security concerns and planned initiatives ...