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

Was always going to happen: Circa news app closes after failing to find a buyer

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Circa 1605, Inc., the makers of the Circa News application, have ceased trading after failing to find a buyer for the site. The site went on the market in April after the company failed to raise a new round of funding to …

Want to earn Bitcoin while playing Minecraft? Well now you can

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Do you like playing Minecraft and wouldn’t mind earning some Bitcoin along the way? OK, so that’s not something many would have pondered before, but now you actually can, with prominent Minecraft server PlayMC now offering that very feature. The service, dubbed …

SEC investigating notorious corporate insider trading hackers FIN4

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are investigating notorious hacking group FIN4 over allegations that they have been using hacked information to profit from share trading. To make matters even more interesting, Reuters quotes “people familiar with the matter“ as saying that …

Report: CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir, raising $500m Series I on $20b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. is said to be raising $500 million Series I on a $20 billion valuation. According to reports, the new round of funding apparently reflects investors’ eagerness to gain access to a startup seen as one …

Bad idea: why Google shouldn’t be involved in removing revenge porn on its own volition

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” Robert H Jackson, famed jurist and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg …

They’re back: Foursquare returns mayorships to its Swarm geolocation check-in app

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Foursquare, Inc. announced Monday that mayorships are back in their geolocation check-in app Swarm. The feature, one of the original features of Foursquare before it pivoted into a places to visit recommendation app, allowed users who checked into places to earn “mayorships” …

Docker, CoreOS declare peace in the container wars and join the Open Container Project

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The combatants in the “container wars” have declared peace with an announcement Monday that they are joining forces to create the Open Container Project (OCP), chartered to establish common standards for software containers. The project sees rival container providers CoreOS, Inc. and …

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Indian cryptocurrency startup Trestor has completed a successful trial of its digital currency Trest in the African nation of Cameroon, demonstrating how altcoin can play a role within the third world. The pilot program included the Cameroon government and Socapssi, an organization …

Google accused of spying on users with audio listener bundled with Chromium

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Is Google spying on what you are saying via your computer’s microphone? They well could be if you use Chromium, and that’s the crux a new accusation from Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Pirate Party. Falkvinge claims in a blog post …

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music and wins, but shows herself up as a hypocrite in the process

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Shakespeare, it isn’t, but whether you’re a fan of the music of Taylor Swift or not, no one can argue with the fact that she has become highly successful. With that success has come power, but how …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Was always going to happen: Circa news app closes after failing to find a buyer

Want to earn Bitcoin while playing Minecraft? Well now you can

SEC investigating notorious corporate insider trading hackers FIN4

Report: CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir, raising $500m Series I on $20b valuation

Bad idea: why Google shouldn’t be involved in removing revenge porn on its own volition

They’re back: Foursquare returns mayorships to its Swarm geolocation check-in app

Docker, CoreOS declare peace in the container wars and join the Open Container Project

Bitcoin alt Trest takes off in Cameroon of all places after a successful pilot program

Google accused of spying on users with audio listener bundled with Chromium

Taylor Swift takes on Apple Music and wins, but shows herself up as a hypocrite in the process

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