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

Smart clothing maker Athos raises $35.5m Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Smart clothing maker Athos (Mad Apparel, Inc.) has raised $35.5 million Series C in a round led by Social Capital that included MAS Holdings, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Felix Capital, as well as previous investors DMC and Joe Lacob. Founded in 2012 …

Bitcoin fintech payment service provider Align Commerce raises $12.5m Series A

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin fintech payment service startup Align Commerce, Inc. has raised $12.5 million Series A in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that included Silicon Valley Bank, Recruit Strategic Partners and previous investors Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group and FS …

#OpISIS: Anonymous publishes jihadi details as ISIS calls them idiots

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

#OpISIS, the war by hacking collective Anonymous against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), has ramped up in the last 24 hours with the group taking the good fight to the forces of Islamic terrorism. The first pincer movement …

SaaS edtech startup BridgeU raises $2.5m in a seed round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Education technology startup BridgeU Ltd. has raised seed funding of $2.5m in a round led by Octopus Investments that include Fresco Capital, Seedcamp, Jonnie Goodwin (Lepe Partners/Founders Forum) and Deborah Quazzo (GSV Capital). Founded in 2013 BridgeU offers an adaptive university preparation …

Google flogs a dead horse with new design for little used Google+

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google has unveiled a new design for Google+ that sees the little used and regularly maligned social network shift its emphasis to “Collections and Communities.” The move, described by Google as making it much easier for users to post, search, connect and …

Bitcoin mining firm BTCS counts its days as SEC filing shows it’s nearly run out of money

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin mining outfit BTCS, Inc. is counting its days with the company disclosing in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it has nearly run out of money. The filing, required as BTCS is listed on the OTC (over the counter) …

Twitter is secretly testing emoji based responses to tweets in place of the heart button

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Twitter’s much-derided decision to switch from a star based favorite button to a heart shaped like button may be short lived with the messaging come microblogging provider reported to be testing multiple emoji based support options instead. Discovered by Twitter user @_Ninji …

Let the battle begin: Anonymous declares war on ISIS over Paris terrorist attacks

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Members of the hacking collective Anonymous have responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris by openly declaring war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The declaration of war came by a video posted to YouTube and includes a …

Rdio gives up the ghost, files for bankruptcy and sells core assets to Pandora for $75m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Streaming music company Rdio, Inc. is no longer with the company Monday both filing for bankruptcy and announcing it had sold its core assets to Pandora, Inc. The deal will see Pandora pick up technology and intellectual property from the failed music …

Case involving Bitcoin considered by Judge Judy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Judith Sheindlin, better known to millions of fans as Judge Judy, had an interesting case last week when she was forced to try to understand what Bitcoin was. The episode, which went to air November 12, saw the good judge preside over …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bitcoin fintech payment service provider Align Commerce raises $12.5m Series A

#OpISIS: Anonymous publishes jihadi details as ISIS calls them idiots

SaaS edtech startup BridgeU raises $2.5m in a seed round

Google flogs a dead horse with new design for little used Google+

Bitcoin mining firm BTCS counts its days as SEC filing shows it’s nearly run out of money

Twitter is secretly testing emoji based responses to tweets in place of the heart button

Let the battle begin: Anonymous declares war on ISIS over Paris terrorist attacks

Rdio gives up the ghost, files for bankruptcy and sells core assets to Pandora for $75m

Case involving Bitcoin considered by Judge Judy

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