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

Big Data analytics provider Tectonic announces new support for Google Cloud Dataproc

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics provider Tectonic has announced that it is now providing services for Google’s Cloud Dataproc. Dataproc launched in beta in September then in general availability in February, and allows users take advantage of open source data tools for batch processing, querying, …

VR content creation platform Voxelus seals new partnerships with Flat Pyramid and Uphold

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

End-to-end virtual reality content creation platform and marketplace Voxelus is nearly here with the company announcing today that it would be going live in early April, and that it had signed new partnerships with online marketplace Flat Pyramid and online trading platform …

ForgeRock survey finds enterprises are not doing enough to protect customer privacy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Identity management firm ForgeRock, Inc. has released the results of a new privacy survey that has disturbingly found that most IT professionals don’t believe companies are doing enough to protect customer privacy. The survey polled 300 IT professionals, working across eleven verticals, …

BizOps platform startup Usermind raises $14.5m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Business operations platform startup Usermind, Inc. has raised $14.5 million Series B in a round led by Menlo Ventures that included previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and CRV. As part of the deal, Menlo Ventures Managing Director Matt Murphy is joining the Usermind …

Drones are now being used in South Africa to combat illegal poaching of endangered wildlife

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

When many think of drones they may think of Middle Eastern air strikes, smaller camera drones, or even attempts to utilize drones to make deliveries, but what if drones could be used to protect endangered wildlife? That’s exactly what The Lindbergh Foundation’s …

There’s now an Uber for escorts, and it has just raised venture capital in China

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Is there a demand for an Uber-like service for escorts? It turns out a venture capitalist in China believe the answer to that question is yes, with local on-demand escort service Come Rent Me (Hangzhou Ouch Technology Ltd) raising 5 million RMB …

Chrome extension that blocks ads on Bitcoin site found to steal Bitcoins as well

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A Chrome extension that promises to remove ads from a Bitcoin-related site is offering an additional feature users’ are unlikely to want, and that’s the theft of their Bitcoin’s when they attempt to make transfers on a number of leading Bitcoin exchanges. …

ROFL: Cryptsy offers bounty for the return of “stolen” Bitcoin in latest piece of absurd theatrics

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Just when it was thought that the saga of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) couldn’t get any more absurd, it has, with the founder of the company offering a reward to a hacker who is alleged to have stolen funds …

Microsoft silently withdraws support for Bitcoin payments from the Win10 and Win Mobile stores

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s 15-month long love affair with Bitcoin may be coming to an end, with the tech giant quietly removing the option to pay for items using the cryptocurrency in the Windows 10 and Windows Mobile stores at some point in the last …

A new front in the encryption wars opens as Department of Justice targets WhatsApp

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The so-called encryption wars have spread to a new front with news over the weekend that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a new target: the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp. According to an exclusive story from The New York Times, DOJ prosecutors have …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Big Data analytics provider Tectonic announces new support for Google Cloud Dataproc

VR content creation platform Voxelus seals new partnerships with Flat Pyramid and Uphold

ForgeRock survey finds enterprises are not doing enough to protect customer privacy

BizOps platform startup Usermind raises $14.5m Series B

Drones are now being used in South Africa to combat illegal poaching of endangered wildlife

There’s now an Uber for escorts, and it has just raised venture capital in China

Chrome extension that blocks ads on Bitcoin site found to steal Bitcoins as well

ROFL: Cryptsy offers bounty for the return of “stolen” Bitcoin in latest piece of absurd theatrics

Microsoft silently withdraws support for Bitcoin payments from the Win10 and Win Mobile stores

A new front in the encryption wars opens as Department of Justice targets WhatsApp

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