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

Bitcoin as a solution for Greece during the current crisis: what you need to know

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Unless you ignore news reports, you’d know that Greece is in a spot of bother at the moment, and may default on its sovereign debt. Quite a few sites have suggested that Bitcoin could, or should be the next currency of Greece …

Moderated insanity: Fitbit shares close up 48% on their first day of trading

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Fitness tracking maker Fitbit, Inc. went public Thursday to a positive response from Wall Street, closing its first day of trading up 48.4 percent at $29.68 from its original initial public offering price of $20 per share. According to reports, shares peaked …

Twitter preparing its own curated news service under the running name of “Project Lightning”

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A general meme around Twitter, Inc.’s microblogging come messaging service is that it’s difficult to discover or follow events of note; of course if you’re a regular Twitter user it’s not even remotely hard, but it’s apparently a big enough problem that …

Peak unicorn: Airbnb trying to raise $1b Series E on a $24b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Airbnb, Inc. is said to be doing the rounds looking to raise a $1 billion Series E round on a seriously high peak unicorn valuation of $24 billion. The Wall Street Journal says further that the company has also been sharing its …

Fitbit to float on the NYSE Thursday with a $20 share price

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Shares in fitness tracking startup Fitbit, Inc. will float Thursday morning at a starting price of $20 per share, the company revealed Wednesday. According to reports, the $20 price was well ahead of the expected float price, and will result in the …

TechStars acquires UP Global, the company behind Startup Weekend

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Startup accelerator TechStars has acquired UP Global, the company behind Startup Weekend, Startup Week, Startup Next and Startup Digest programs. The acquisition isn’t hugely surprising given the two have had a long and illustrious relationship, with Startup Weekend having come out of a confab at …

Bitcoin exchange Kraken launches new dark pool exchange service

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin exchange Kraken (Payward, Inc.) has launched the Kraken dark pool, a new trading feature that allows Kraken clients to privately place Bitcoin orders and execute against similar-sized orders at potentially better prices than publicly exposed trades. The dark pool, a term …

Feds are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals for hacking the Houston Astros … seriously

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

In news you probably didn’t expect to read today, or any day for that matter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Wednesday that it is currently investigating Major League Baseball (MLB) team the St. Louis Cardinals for hacking, and, in particular, …

Seriously cool: Microsoft reveals it has built a version of Minecraft for HoloLens

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. revealed at the E3 conference Monday that it had built a version of Minecraft for its upcoming HoloLens augmented reality headset. The HoloLens version of the wildly popular Minecraft gives players two ways to play the game: an immersive 2D …

Report: GitHub looking to raise $200m on a $2b Unicorn valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Git repository hosting service GitHub, Inc. is said to be looking to raise a Series B round of $200 million. According to Bloomberg Business, who quotes “people familiar with the matter,” the new round will be on a Unicorn valuation of $2 …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bitcoin as a solution for Greece during the current crisis: what you need to know

Moderated insanity: Fitbit shares close up 48% on their first day of trading

Twitter preparing its own curated news service under the running name of “Project Lightning”

Peak unicorn: Airbnb trying to raise $1b Series E on a $24b valuation

Fitbit to float on the NYSE Thursday with a $20 share price

TechStars acquires UP Global, the company behind Startup Weekend

Bitcoin exchange Kraken launches new dark pool exchange service

Feds are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals for hacking the Houston Astros … seriously

Seriously cool: Microsoft reveals it has built a version of Minecraft for HoloLens

Report: GitHub looking to raise $200m on a $2b Unicorn valuation

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