Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

T-Mobile offers free shares in company: Desperate ploy to retain customers and attract new ones

By Duncan Riley Jun 6, 2016

In a desperate ploy to attract new customers and retain existing ones, or perhaps an inspired promotion depending on which way you look at, wireless carrier T-Mobile International AG has announced that it’s literally…

Tony Fadell out, former Motorola Home head Marwan Fawaz in as CEO of Alphabet-owned Nest

By Duncan Riley Jun 3, 2016

Troubled Alphabet, Inc. smart home devices subsidiary Nest, Inc. has a new Chief Executive Officer after a decision by Founder Tony Fadell to leave the position. Fadell made the announcement in a post on…

Medium has acquired content feed provider Superfeedr

By Duncan Riley Jun 3, 2016

Blogging platform provider Medium (A Medium Corporation) has acquired content feed provider Superfeedr (Notifixious, Inc.) for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2009, Superfeedr fetches and parses RSS or Atom feeds on behalf of its…

IBM and The Weather Company to use Watson AI platform to power smart advertisements

By Duncan Riley Jun 3, 2016

In an interesting new adaption of its leading artificial intelligence (AI) solution, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has announced that its Watson AI platform will now power smart advertisements that interact with consumers. The…

FBI warns hacked LinkedIn, MySpace and Tumblr users are being targeted in Bitcoin extortion scam

By Duncan Riley Jun 2, 2016

Scammers are using data from the recent high profile hacks of MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and others sites in a new form of extortion scam, according to a warning issued by the Federal Bureau of…

Raining money: Uber raises an additional $3.5b taking total funding to $14.11b

By Duncan Riley Jun 2, 2016

Ridesharing startup Uber, Inc. has raised a staggering new private equity round of $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. According to The New York Times the new round was raised at a…

Huge: Microsoft opens up its Windows Holographic platform to third parties

By Duncan Riley Jun 1, 2016

In what could be a defining moment in the nascent augment reality and virtual reality spaces, Microsoft Corp. has opened up its Windows Holographic platform, the platform that drives its Hololens augmented reality glasses,…

Trigger warning: 65.5m hacked Tumblr records hit the dark web

By Duncan Riley Jun 1, 2016

The social justice warriors and “other kin” who use the Yahoo, Inc.-owned blogging site Tumblr have been pwned with a hacker releasing stolen records, including usernames and passwords, on the dark web. News of a…

Atari signs deal with SIGFOX to manufacture branded IoT devices

By Duncan Riley Jun 1, 2016

Would you like to play Asteroids on your smart, internet-connected bedside lamp? That may not be happening anytime soon, but you may well see the Atari brand on a range of products in the…

Report: 419 million people now use ad blockers on their smartphones

By Duncan Riley Jun 1, 2016

The rising popularity of ad blocking is not limited to traditional computers with a new study finding that increasingly large numbers of people are now using the technology on their smartphones. According to a…

Duncan Riley

T-Mobile offers free shares in company: Desperate ploy to retain customers and attract new ones

Tony Fadell out, former Motorola Home head Marwan Fawaz in as CEO of Alphabet-owned Nest

Medium has acquired content feed provider Superfeedr

IBM and The Weather Company to use Watson AI platform to power smart advertisements

FBI warns hacked LinkedIn, MySpace and Tumblr users are being targeted in Bitcoin extortion scam

Raining money: Uber raises an additional $3.5b taking total funding to $14.11b

Huge: Microsoft opens up its Windows Holographic platform to third parties

Trigger warning: 65.5m hacked Tumblr records hit the dark web

Atari signs deal with SIGFOX to manufacture branded IoT devices

Report: 419 million people now use ad blockers on their smartphones

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