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

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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. Bridges, who had previously spent time as a …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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 the news of the round back in late …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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. The question for the year ahead is will …

Bitcoin stolen via malware-infected pirated copy of Fallout 4

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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 Bitcoin? That’s exactly what happened to one Reddit …

Google Play names its best Android apps and games for 2015

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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 Games of 2015 and Best Apps of 2015, …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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, even down to things like Internet-enabled light bulbs. …

Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore gets 30 months for hacking

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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 running the site. The sentence was imposed by …

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

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

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 — have announced a global alliance to take …

Analyst claims Apple is prepping a 4-inch iPhone 6c for launch in Q1

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple looks set to expand its lineup of iPhones in the new year with a report that it’s preparing to ship a new phone. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, famed for accurate Apple predictions, has issued a research note with details of …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

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

Analyst claims Apple is prepping a 4-inch iPhone 6c for launch in Q1

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