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

Google employs mobile phone confirmations in new password free login test

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Remembering passwords can be a complete pain, let alone a security risk, but what if there was a way to access a site without the need for one? That’s the question Google, Inc. would appear to be addressing with the tech giant …

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix looks to raise $200m in 2016 IPO

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix, Inc. has filed in a S1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating its intention to go public in 2016. The company did not indicate how many shares it was offering in the …

Google said to be developing new messaging app with AI powered chat bot support

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google, Inc. is building a new messaging app to take on Facebook, Inc.’s Messenger and WhatsApp, according to a report Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal quotes “people familiar with the matter” as saying that the tech giant had been working on the …

Nearly broke Bitcoin mining company BTCS raises $1.4m to keep it going…for now

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Confirming that there’s a sucker born every minute, Bitcoin mining outfit BTCS, Inc. has raised $1.4 million in a post-IPO equity round led by Cavalry Fund LP. The funding comes after news via way of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing in …

Fascinating AI powered video search startup Valossa raises a $650k seed round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence (AI) powered video search firm Valossa Labs Oy has raised a $650,000 seed round that included Butterfly Ventures and several Finnish angel investors. Founded in September this year by a development team of Ph.D.’s, graduate students and M.Sc.’s from the …

Hello Kitty hacked with the data of 3.3m users making its way online

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The database for the site sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other characters from Japanese kawaii character maker Sanrio Co. Ltd. has been hacked with the account details of 3.3 million users making its way online. The database was …

Microsoft has acquired Ray Ozzie’s comms startup Talko to improve Skype

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud connected communications startup Talko, Inc. has been acquired by Microsoft Corp. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012 by former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Talko offered an app that combined messaging, calling, and conferencing through the cloud with the …

Pentaho’s Quentin Gallivan predicts Big Data will get to work in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Data blending, the process that delivers a quick and straightforward method to extract value from multiple data sources, has continued to grow this year but what lies for the year ahead? Pentaho Corporation Chief Executive Officer Quentin Gallivan predicts that data blending …

Hillary Clinton calls for a Manhattan Project on encryption, doesn’t understand what a backdoor is

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

In one of the more bizarre examples of tech illiteracy among America’s Presidential wannabees running for a spot in the 2016 Election, Democrat candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton has called for a “Manhattan Project” between Government (see: spying agencies) and …

Linux Foundation announces bitcoin blockchain initiative to develop new fintech applications

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Not-for-profit open-source group The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort that aims to advance the blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin. The project is aiming to develop a new enterprise-grade, open-source distributed ledger framework based on the existing blockchain with …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Google employs mobile phone confirmations in new password free login test

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix looks to raise $200m in 2016 IPO

Google said to be developing new messaging app with AI powered chat bot support

Nearly broke Bitcoin mining company BTCS raises $1.4m to keep it going…for now

Fascinating AI powered video search startup Valossa raises a $650k seed round

Hello Kitty hacked with the data of 3.3m users making its way online

Microsoft has acquired Ray Ozzie’s comms startup Talko to improve Skype

Pentaho’s Quentin Gallivan predicts Big Data will get to work in 2016

Hillary Clinton calls for a Manhattan Project on encryption, doesn’t understand what a backdoor is

Linux Foundation announces bitcoin blockchain initiative to develop new fintech applications

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