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

Gay sex tape shock as teacher has Dropbox account hacked, video posted on school website

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A teacher from Maumelle, Arkansas, has disclosed how he lost his job after his Dropbox account was hacked and a video of him having sex with another guy was posted to a school website. Twenty-nine year-old Brian Cody Bray disclosed to the …

Secret Service Silk Road Bitcoin thief may have stolen more, had an accomplice

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Disgraced former U.S. Secret Service agent and Silk Road Bitcoin thief Shaun W. Bridges is back in the news after it was disclosed by the government that they believe he may have additional bitcoins stashed somewhere, and may have an unknown accomplice. …

Apple responds to FBI backdoor request by doubling down on iOS security

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple, Inc. is a company that is easy to dislike, from their secretive nature, non-open app store, through to their sycophant fans. And then they do something that makes you think, wow, maybe they are really cool after all. The New York …

Facebook rolls out emoji “reaction” option as an alternative to liking a news feed item

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has begun to roll out a new “reactions” option that allows users to respond to items in their news feed with more than its traditional, and simple “like.” Under the new reactions options, users are able to …

Sad: Technorati acquired by Synacor for just $3m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Media and advertising firm Synacor, Inc. has acquired San Francisco-based advertising firm Technorati, Inc. for $3 million. Founded in 2002, Technorati was one of the early darlings of the then “Web 2.0” movement and tracked and ranked the then nascent blogging space. …

Protests held nationwide as Apple reveals DoJ demanded over a dozen phones be unlocked

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Nationwide protests were held outside Apple Stores and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington D.C. Tuesday, as it was revealed that the Justice Department (DoJ) had demanded Apple unlock at least a dozen iPhones. The controversy around the issue …

Spotify to abandon own hosting infrastructure and move to Google Cloud

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

In a coup for Google, Inc., music streaming firm Spotify AB has announced it’s moving its service to the Google Cloud. Founded in 2006, Spotify has until now hosted its service by itself in data centers in its native Stockholm, as well …

Sony developed a Blockchain-based platform for sharing academic proficiency and progress records

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Sony Corp.’s education division Sony Global Education has announced that it has developed a Blockchain-based platform for secure sharing of academic proficiency and progress records. The new, unnamed platform leverages the Blockchain to allows the distribution of these records, which are often …

Intel and AT&T working on 4G LTE enabled drones for higher, longer flights | #MWC16

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

AT&T, Inc. and Intel Corp. have teamed up to test technologies for drones that will allow them to communicate over the 4G LTE network. The announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Monday, detailed that the utilization of the 4G …

Oracle acquires cloud application hypervisor provider Ravello Systems

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corporation has acquired cloud application hypervisor provider Ravello Systems, Inc. The price of the acquisition was not officially disclosed but VentureBeat put the price at $500 million. Founded in 2011, Ravello bills itself as “the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider,” …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Gay sex tape shock as teacher has Dropbox account hacked, video posted on school website

Secret Service Silk Road Bitcoin thief may have stolen more, had an accomplice

Apple responds to FBI backdoor request by doubling down on iOS security

Facebook rolls out emoji “reaction” option as an alternative to liking a news feed item

Sad: Technorati acquired by Synacor for just $3m

Protests held nationwide as Apple reveals DoJ demanded over a dozen phones be unlocked

Spotify to abandon own hosting infrastructure and move to Google Cloud

Sony developed a Blockchain-based platform for sharing academic proficiency and progress records

Intel and AT&T working on 4G LTE enabled drones for higher, longer flights | #MWC16

Oracle acquires cloud application hypervisor provider Ravello Systems

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