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

Report: Twitter in talks to have live streaming sports app available for Apple TV

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microblogging-come-messaging platform Twitter, Inc. continues plans to reinvent itself as a sport live streaming service, with a report Sunday claiming it is in talks with Apple, Inc. to have the new service included on Apple TV. According to The New York Times, the …

Paper finds up to 100m vehicles made by Volkswagen are vulnerable to key-cloning

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Up to 100 million vehicles manufactured by German manufacturer Volkswagen AG could be hacked and stolen due to deficient security, according to a newly published research paper. According to a paper from German security firm Kasper & Oswald, it was found that …

Microsoft has acquired interactive live game streaming service Beam

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has acquired interactive live game streaming service Beam Interactive, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014 and launching in beta in January this year, Beam differentiates itself from live game streaming competitors such as Twitch and YouTube by offering near …

Court rules Twitter and ISIS are not friends with benefits

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A court in California has found that Twitter and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are not friends with benefits, after dismissing a lawsuit that claimed that the struggling microblogging come messaging social network is responsible for ISIS’s activities on …

Rubbish: Australia to regulate bitcoin under money laundering and counter-terrorism laws

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Australia will be one of the first countries to regulate bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under the guise of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws. The proposal comes following the release of a report from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (AUSTRAC) that …

Hitler-ransomware may be goosestepping onto a computer near you

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new form of ransomware was discovered in the wild channels Godwin’s Law, using Hitler’s name quite literally in its attempts to shake down victims. Dubbed Hitler-Ransomware (be it misspelled in the lock screen as Hitler-Ransonware), shows a device lock screen displaying Hitler, telling …

Disney invests $1b in MLB Advanced Media live streaming spinoff BAMTech

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that it is acquiring a 33 percent stake in streaming services company BAMTech, Inc., a spinoff company from Major League Baseball’s MLB Advanced Media business. Under the terms of the deal Disney will pay $1 billion …

Live virtual reality streaming startup NextVR takes $80m Series B as part of push into Asia

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Live virtual reality (VR) streaming startup NextVR, Inc. has raised $80 million Series B in a round that included China Assets Holdings, Citic Guoan Information Industry Co., CMC Holdings, Founder H Fund, NetEase, VMS Investment Group, SoftBank, and Spectrum 28 Capital along …

Customers take a 36% haircut on their bitcoin wallets as Bitfinex socializes losses post hack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Customers of hacked bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (BTXNA, Inc.) are set to take a serious haircut on their bitcoin holdings after the company announced it would be taking 36 percent of the balance of their bitcoin wallets to offset losses following the hack …

Facebook user study finds cat owners are more likely to be sad and lonely

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The meme based on that “crazy cat lady” may have some basis in truth, with a new study from Facebook, Inc. finding that cat people are more sad and lonely compared to people who own dogs. According to the study of 160,000 users, Facebook …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: Twitter in talks to have live streaming sports app available for Apple TV

Paper finds up to 100m vehicles made by Volkswagen are vulnerable to key-cloning

Microsoft has acquired interactive live game streaming service Beam

Court rules Twitter and ISIS are not friends with benefits

Rubbish: Australia to regulate bitcoin under money laundering and counter-terrorism laws

Hitler-ransomware may be goosestepping onto a computer near you

Disney invests $1b in MLB Advanced Media live streaming spinoff BAMTech

Live virtual reality streaming startup NextVR takes $80m Series B as part of push into Asia

Customers take a 36% haircut on their bitcoin wallets as Bitfinex socializes losses post hack

Facebook user study finds cat owners are more likely to be sad and lonely

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