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

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API security startup Traceable AI raises $60M on $450M valuation

Application programming interface security startup Traceable Inc. announced today that it has raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate its growth by further investing in its product development and research efforts, bolstering its sales and marketing teams, and expanding global sales. The Series B round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and included Tiger Global Management, Unusual ...

Critical vulnerabilities found in network switches used in millions of enterprises

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Armis Inc. have uncovered five critical network switch vulnerabilities in the implementation of Transport Layer Security in devices used in millions of enterprises. Dubbed “TLStorm 2.0,” a sequel to three vulnerabilities found by Armis in APC Smart-UPS last year, the new vulnerabilities steam from a similar design flaw. The original TLStorm allowed ...

Apple lawsuit against chipmaking startup Rivos alleges theft of trade secrets

Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against chipmaking startup Rivos Inc., alleging that it hired more than 40 former Apple employees and instructed them to copy information about Apple’s system-on-chip designs. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California San Jose on Friday, names Rivos and two former Apple employees, Wen ...

Grindr user location data was reportedly collected and sold

A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that the movements of users of the gay dating app Grindr were collected from an advertising network and made available for sale. The report says the information has been for sale since at least 2017 and that historical data may still be obtainable. However, Grindr cut ...

Yuga Labs raises $320M in virtual land sales but causes Ethereum processing cost spike

A virtual land sale by Yuga Labs Inc. on Saturday evening raised about $320 million through the sale of virtual land but also caused the processing costs of Ethereum to spike at the same time. Yuga, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens representing digital artwork, sold 55,000 blocks of land in ...

Managed Kafka streaming service Amazon MSK Serverless now generally available

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that Amazon MSK Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, is now generally available. Amazon MSK is designed to scale resources instantly to meet an application’s demand, vastly simplifying real-time data ingestion and streaming. The service automatically provisions and manages the resources necessary to provide ...

Robinhood shares hit record low on yet another poor earnings report

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. dropped to a record low in late trading after the popular no-commission stock and cryptocurrency trading platform missed all estimates for the fourth straight quarter since going public in July. For the quarter ended March 31, Robinhood reported a net loss of $392 million, or 45 cents per share, compared ...

Zendesk shares rise on better-than-expected quarterly revenue

Shares of Zendesk Inc. rose slightly in late trading today after the customer service and sales software provider reported better-than-expected revenue in its first quarter. For the quarter ended March 31, Zendesk reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $15.1 million, or 12 cents per share, compared with $21.4 million, or 18 cents ...

Shares in collaboration software company Atlassian drop following third-quarter loss

Shares in Australian collaboration and application software company Atlassian Corp. PLC dropped in late trading today after it reported a loss in its latest quarter. For the fiscal third quarter ended March 31, Atlassian reported a net loss of $31.1 million, or 12 cents per share, compared with a profit of $159.8 million, or 63 ...

Strategic intelligence platform startup Strider Technologies raises $45M

Strategic intelligence platform startup Strider Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $45 million in new funding to enhance its products, introduce new capabilities and expand its geographic presence to support demand across industry and government markets. Valor Equity Partners led the Series B round, with DataTribe, Koch Disruptive Technologies and One9 Ventures also participating. Including the new ...