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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LOL cat gif: Comcast via NBCU just acquired large chunks of both Buzzfeed and Vox Media

This gallery of cat gifs is proudly presented by BuzzFeed and Vox Media owner Comcast Corp., America’s favorite cable company. That may be a slight exaggeration at this point, but Comcast, America’s most hated company, is now in part powering the gifs at BuzzFeed and the so-called “independent” media provided by Vox Media, Inc. after ...

Cloud SaaS firm SunGard acquired by Fidelity for $9.1b in cash and stock deal

Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) firm SunGard Data Systems, Inc. has been acquired by Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. for $9.1 billion including debt. According to reports, the deal consists of 45 percent cash and 55 percent stock, and would create a combined company with more than $9.2 billion in annual revenues and over ...

Clowns: SMS Bitcoin wallet service 37coins closes due to absolutely no understanding of their market

Bitcoin wallet service provider 37coins, Inc. has decided to shut down operations after failing to gain traction in the marketplace. Founded in 2013, 37coins provided a SMS based Bitcoin wallet service for people they condescendingly referred to (seriously) as the “unbanked” and “unteched” in (again, you can’t make this up) “developing economies without Internet access.” ...

Nine charged with hacking into newswire services to obtain info prior to it hitting the market

Nine people were charged on Tuesday with various offenses related to the hacking of various newswire services to obtain information from unpublished press releases to use to their advantage in share trades. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, said in a statement that the indictments charge the defendants with hacking into the newswires ...

Report: Facebook testing Twitter like breaking news app

Facebook, Inc. is reported to be working on a breaking news application that has been compared to being some what like that provided by Twitter, Inc. According to Business Insider who claims to have seen screenshots and spoken to a “source,” the new application is part of the Facebook for Business initiative but works differently ...

Apple share price plummets 5.2% as China cuts valuation of local currency against the US dollar

Stock in tech giant Apple, Inc. dropped 5.2 percent in trading Tuesday following a devaluation of the Renminbi (RMB) by the Chinese Government. The People’s Bank of China, which sets the exchange rate for the currency, cut the valuation of the RMB by 1.9 percent against the U.S. Dollar in what it called a “one ...

Exclusive: John McAfee to disrupt SSL certificate space with company offering unlimited licensing

Cybersecurity legend John McAfee is seeking to disrupt the SSL certificate business with a new company that will offer a combination of both world class service combined with pricing that is not even remotely matched by the big names in the business at scale. Catering to both the retail and enterprise market, the new business ...

Possible end of days for HTC as company now valued less than its cash on hand

A decline in the stock price of phone manufacturer HTC Corporation has left the company in a decidedly awkward position: it is now worth less than it has cash on hand. According to reports this means that HTC’s assets are not only now worth nothing, they’re actually a liability to the company’s bottom line. “HTC’s ...

Steve Jobs turns in his grave as iPhone 6s said to be designed to support an Apple stylus

Apple’s forthcoming iPhone release (tentatively the iPhone 6S) is heading back to the future with a report Monday that Force Touch on the device has been designed to support an Apple stylus, among other changes. According to the usually reliable 9to5Mac the new iOS version of Force Touch (code named Orb) is designed to skip ...

Google restructures as Alphabet: Divisions to be run independently, creating new investment opps

Google, Inc. as we have once known it is no longer with the tech giant announcing Monday a massive restructure of the company that will see the organization become known as Alphabet, Inc. Google, the brand and services we all know and mostly love isn’t going anywhere however, with a slimmed down version of Google (the ...