Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io raises $1m seed round

By Duncan Riley Dec 7, 2015

Bitcoin to Amazon person-to-person (P2P) service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has raised $1 million in a seed round from Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2014, Purse.io offers a service that acquires unwanted Amazon gift…

Secret Service agent gets 71 months for stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road investigation

By Duncan Riley Dec 7, 2015

A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been jailed for 71 months after being found guilty of stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation into the now defunct Darknet marketplace Silk Road. Agent Shaun W.…

SEC filing confirms Airbnb raised $1.5b in new funding on $25.5b valuation

By Duncan Riley Dec 7, 2015

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has confirmed that it raised $1.5 billion in private equity funding earlier this year via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The Wall Street Journal first broke…

Blue Coat’s Hugh Thompson predicts an increase in cloud security breaches in 2016

By Duncan Riley Dec 6, 2015

2015 has been a horror year on the security front, with a long list of high-profile corporations and even the Internal Revenue Service finding themselves at the mercy of a variety of bad actors.…

Bitcoin stolen via malware-infected pirated copy of Fallout 4

By Duncan Riley Dec 6, 2015

Various industry bodies over the years have tried all sorts of scare tactics in relation to piracy, up to and including taking people to court, but what if your pirated item ended up stealing…

Netwrix survey finds security and loss of physical control hinders cloud adoption

By Duncan Riley Dec 6, 2015

IT auditing software company Netwrix Corp. has released the results of its 2015 Cloud Security Survey, showing that 65 percent of companies are concerned with security when migrating to the cloud and 40 percent are…

Google Play names its best Android apps and games for 2015

By Duncan Riley Dec 6, 2015

Google, Inc. has released its annual Google Play Best of 2015 list, and while there were some surprises, the list saw a number of old favorites continue to dominate. The list, which includes Best…

Vodafone’s Andrew Morawski shares some interesting M2M & IoT predictions for 2016

By Duncan Riley Dec 4, 2015

Machine to Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) space has boomed in 2015, but bigger things are ahead as the market continues to explode and reach into every aspect of our lives,…

Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore gets 30 months for hacking

By Duncan Riley Dec 3, 2015

Victims of Hunter Moore, the owner and operator of the now-defunct revenge porn site Is Anyone Up?, have had the last laugh after he was sent to jail for 30 months for crimes committed when…

Didi Kuaidi, Lyft, GrabTaxi & Ola form global alliance to take on Uber

By Duncan Riley Dec 3, 2015

Uber Technologies, Inc.’s main competitors in China, the United States, Southeast Asia and India — Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi, Inc.), Lyft, Inc., GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd., and India’s Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), respectively…

Duncan Riley

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io raises $1m seed round

Secret Service agent gets 71 months for stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road investigation

SEC filing confirms Airbnb raised $1.5b in new funding on $25.5b valuation

Blue Coat’s Hugh Thompson predicts an increase in cloud security breaches in 2016

Bitcoin stolen via malware-infected pirated copy of Fallout 4

Google Play names its best Android apps and games for 2015

Vodafone’s Andrew Morawski shares some interesting M2M & IoT predictions for 2016

Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore gets 30 months for hacking

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