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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Lazarus rising? Kodak to enter Android device market

Eastman Kodak Co. has announced a new deal with Bullit Group Ltd. that will see the once bankrupt company launching Android powered mobile devices. The company said in a statement that slipped under the radar before Christmas that they were to offer a range of mobiles and tablets that will come “pre-loaded with bespoke image capture, ...

Lizard Squad targets Tor network compromising user anonymity

Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has moved on from attacking Xbox Live and the Playstation Network and has now set its sites on the Tor network. The group announced the zero-day attack on Twitter, where is said it would target unnoticed weaknesses. To clarify, we are no longer attacking PSN or Xbox. We are testing ...

Smokin: Bitcoin comes to Burning Man

Bitcoin is headed directly to the Black Rock Desert, Nevada by way of the annual Burning Man festival. The Burning Man Project, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit organization behind the festival started accepting Bitcoin for donations earlier this week. “Donations will help provide more grants, training and support to creators of radically interactive art and ...

Pirates flock to The Interview as Sony blocks global distribution

Seth Rogan & James Franco’s new movie The Interview was released yesterday and it looks like it might be a hit, at least on BitTorrent. The movie features a plot to kill North Korea’s President Kim Jong-Un and is widely believed to be the raison d’État Sony Corp. was targeted by hackers acting on behalf of the kleptocratic state ...

Bitcoin voted worst currency in 2014

Bitcoin has been voted the worst currency in 2014, following a year of downward fluctuations in the still young open cryptocurrency market. Bloomberg makes the claim, highlighting that Bitcoin did even worse than the Russian Ruble and Ukrainian Hryvnia. “…relentless promotion can’t hide these facts: The digital currency peaked at a value of $1,130 just over a ...

The Interview now available on Google Play, Youtube & Xbox

Seth Rogan and James Franco fans will have something extra to celebrate this Christmas with news that The Interview is now available on Google Play, YouTube and Xbox. The distribution of the movie had previously been canned following threats from North Korean backed hackers, a move that was condemned by many, including President Obama.  Surprisingly the movie is not ...

Uber CEO threatened with up to two years jail as charges laid in South Korea

Uber Inc. CEO Travis Kalanick has been indicted in South Korea for operating an illegal taxi service, a charge that carries a jail sentence of up to two years The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office told Yonhap News that it had charged Kalanick with violating a law governing passenger transport services, which specifies that rental-car service ...

Uber apologizes for surge pricing during Sydney terror attack

Uber Inc. has apologized for implementing surge pricing during the Sydney terror attack December 15th. The company was unfairly attacked by the mainstream media and the uninformed on social media when its algorithms automatically increased the cost of booking a car due to an increase in demand. “The events of last week were upsetting for the whole community ...

Sony backflips: The Interview will now show in a limited theatrical release, VOD

Sony Corp. has announced that it will allow showings of The Interview in a limited theatrical release, after previously cravenly giving in to threats following its much publicized hacking by North Korea. At the time of writing screenings of the comedy have been confirmed in various cinemas in Texas and Georgia, although The Wrap reports the final number ...

Bitcoin 2015: here’s the early bull and bear predictions

Where will Bitcoin head in 2015? It’s December and that means it’s prediction time, and so far with pre-Christmas predictions there’s a split of opinion between those predicting a bull or bear market for the cryptocurrency. Bulls At the head of the bullish Bitcoin market predictions for 2015 is Keith Gilabert of Fina V Capital, who ...