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

Augmented reality startup Meta raises $50m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Augmented reality startup Meta Company has raised $50 million Series B in a round that included Horizons Ventures Limited, Lenovo, Tencent, Banyan Capital, Comcast Ventures, and GQY. According to TechCrunch, the round was raised on a $300 million valuation. Founded in 2012, …

Symantec acquires enterprise security firm Blue Coat for $4.65b

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Symantec Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire enterprise security firm Blue Coat Systems, Inc. for $4.65 billion in cash. Under the deal, Blue Coat Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark will become Symantec Chief Executive Officer …

Is Google manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton?

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Search giant Google, Inc. stands accused of manipulating its search results in favor of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a new report published Thursday. SourceFed, a YouTube channel with 1.7 million followers and with no obvious political affiliation (it …

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel raises seed round from K Venture Group

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel Industries has raised a seed round from K Venture Group (KVG), the investment arm of South Korea internet company Kakao Corporation. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Founded in 2014 with the aim of …

Facebook rolling out support for 360 degree photographs

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. will now support 360-degree photographs, the company announced Thursday. The new feature will allow users to upload panorama shots as well as proper 360 degree photographs, which will then be viewable by friends on their timeline complete …

Report: Larry Page has invested $100m+ in two flying car startups

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Flying cars have long been a dream of many, an idea best personified in the 1960’s cartoon The Jetsons, but despite the best intentions over the years, no successful flying car has every really come to market. But what if that was …

A true marvel of the modern age: meet Edwin, the smart rubber duck

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Internet of Things has started to change many aspects of our lives, but not so much in the bath tub … until now. Meet Edwin the Smart Duck, a rubber duckie which does just a touch more than float around a …

Millions of Twitter account details appear for sale on the dark web following possible hack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Millions of Twitter access credentials have made their way to the dark web and are currently being offered for sale, according to reports Wednesday. How many accounts have been compromised is not clear; ZDNet reports that the Russian hacker, who goes by …

AI crowdsourced labor machine learning startup CrowdFlower raises $10m Series D

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence (AI) come crowdsourced labor machine learning startup CrowdFlower, Inc. has raised $10 million Series D in a round that included Canvas Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Microsoft Corp. Founded in 2007, CrowdFlower offers what they describe as the essential human-in-the-loop platform …

German Process Mining startup Celonis raises $27.5 Series A

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Process Mining startup Celonis GmbH has raised $27.5 million Series A in a round led by Accel and 83North. Founded in 2011, Celonis offers a Process Mining big data platform that automatically analyses enterprise event data to bring end-to-end transparency and efficiency …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Augmented reality startup Meta raises $50m Series B

Symantec acquires enterprise security firm Blue Coat for $4.65b

Is Google manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton?

Philippine Bitcoin fintech startup Satoshi Citadel raises seed round from K Venture Group

Facebook rolling out support for 360 degree photographs

Report: Larry Page has invested $100m+ in two flying car startups

A true marvel of the modern age: meet Edwin, the smart rubber duck

Millions of Twitter account details appear for sale on the dark web following possible hack

AI crowdsourced labor machine learning startup CrowdFlower raises $10m Series D

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