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

Yahoo tells potential buyers that its revenue is in free-fall

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Financial projections given to potential buyers of Yahoo, Inc. show that the company is in serious free-fall, according to a report Wednesday. A copy of what is known as the “sales book” was seen by Kara Swisher at Re/Code and is said …

If they only had a heart: Nest might compensate bricked Revolv smart device owners … maybe

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

It may have been the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz who wanted a heart, but perhaps some of the folks at smart home device maker Nest Labs, Inc. may have magically discovered one as well with news that the company …

Mimecast launches new email security cloud service as research shows whaling is on the rise

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast Ltd has announced the general availability of Impersonation Protect, a new service billed as the first cloud product that directly combats spear-phishing email attacks where company officers are impersonated, also known by names including CEO Fraud, Business …

Court appoints receiver in ongoing case against failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

In a positive sign for victims of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) a court has taken possession of the company’s assets, appointed a receiver and has suspended all powers of the company’s agents, employees, officers, and directors. The order came …

Panama Papers were obtained by an email server hack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The lawyers at the center of a scandal surrounding the release of data pertaining to the use of offshore accounts by the rich and famous have claimed that the data was obtained in a hack. If you’ve missed the story so far …

WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout, now turned on by default for all users

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Facebook, Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it had completed its rollout of end-to-end encryption, meaning that every message, photo, video, file, and voice message sent on the service will be unable to be seen by any third party, including law …

Twitter obtains rights to stream Thursday Night Football in bizarre NFL deal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. has signed a deal with the National Football League (NFL) to stream 10 Thursday night National Football League games during the 2016 season. Neither the NFL or Twitter confirmed the amount of the deal although Bloomberg …

Distributed P2P Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar opens for business

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Distributed peer-to-peer Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar has opened for business after one month of testing. Founded in 2014 as a fork of the DarkMarket project, OpenBazaar provides a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) e-commerce marketplace powered by Bitcoin payments that utilizes P2P networking, Ricardian …

Bank-backed Blockchain fintech consortium R3 signs partnership with Microsoft

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bank backed Blockchain fintech development consortium R3 (R3CEV LLC) has signed a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop, test and deploy Blockchain technologies on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service cloud. If you’re not familiar with R3, the consortium was founded in 2015 …

Salesforce has acquired AI deep learning startup MetaMind

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com, Inc. has acquired deep learning startup MetaMind, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, MetaMind built an automated image recognition platform founded on deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that aimed to “simplify the complexity of our daily lives.” The …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Yahoo tells potential buyers that its revenue is in free-fall

If they only had a heart: Nest might compensate bricked Revolv smart device owners … maybe

Mimecast launches new email security cloud service as research shows whaling is on the rise

Court appoints receiver in ongoing case against failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy

Panama Papers were obtained by an email server hack

WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout, now turned on by default for all users

Twitter obtains rights to stream Thursday Night Football in bizarre NFL deal

Distributed P2P Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar opens for business

Bank-backed Blockchain fintech consortium R3 signs partnership with Microsoft

Salesforce has acquired AI deep learning startup MetaMind

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