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

Report: Comcast could buy Vox, who bought Re/Code, and they’re all interestingly linked

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amid an orgy of IPO’s and acquisitions that is so 1999esque it’s scary, the latest rumor/ report takes us into incestuous territory with a claim that Comcast Corp. is looking to acquire Vox Media, Inc. According to Quartz, talks have occurred between …

Somebody think of the children! Twitch bans streaming of adult games

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc.’s video game streaming service Twitch has considered the statement “won’t somebody please think of the children” and decided to ban users from streaming any game that has an Adults Only (AO) rating. The ban affects popular games regularly streaming on the …

Clothing retailer Hot Topic acquires ThinkGeek for $122m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Clothing retailer Hot Topic, Inc. has acquired Geeknet, Inc., the company behind online retailer ThinkGeek for $122 million. ThinkGeek, for those not familiar with the store, is an online retailer that caters to, as the name may suggest, geeks. The company sells a …

Vox Media acquires tech blog Re/Code in an all-share deal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Vox Media, Inc., has acquired Revere Digital, Inc., the parent company behind tech blog Re/Code founded by The Wall Street Journal veterans Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but is reported to be an all-share deal, suggesting …

GigaOm acquired by company led by ex-Demand Media CIO Byron Reece

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Pioneering tech website GigaOm may be set to rise from the dead come August with news today that the site had been acquired by Austin based startup Knowingly Corp, run by former Demand Media CIO Byron Reece. Knowingly said in a statement, appropriately published on …

About bloody time: Twitter reported to be releasing Periscope for Android today

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Twitter, Inc. has finally announced that its popular live streaming app Periscope will be available on Android devices today. It’s not clear from reports exactly when today, or whether it will be released globally or just within the United States; at the …

Cloud games platform provider Weeby.co acquires Vietnamese social app Tappy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based social games platform provider Weeby.co, Inc. has acquired Vietnamese social location-based app provider Tappy Pte. Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in August 2014, Tappy offers a hyperlocal social app that is said to transform any location into a virtual online community …

Online gold savings and payment provider BitGold acquires GoldMoney for $42m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Online gold savings and payments provider BitGold, Inc. has acquired precious metals custody services group GoldMoney Network Ltd. for CAD$59.1 million ($42 million). Under the deal, BitGold will acquire the intellectual property and operating assets of GoldMoney in exchange for the issuance …

Cloud security platform provider Alarm.com files for $75m IPO

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based security platform provider Alarm.com, Inc. has filed for an initial public offering (IPO.) According to reports, the company is looking to raise $75 million which it plans to use on working capital and other general corporate purposes. Goldman Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse …

Unredacted Adult FriendFinder hacked data offered for 70 Bitcoin, may include CC records

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Users of Friendfinder Network, Inc.’s Adult FriendFinder may have more to fear than their sexual preferences being leaked, with a hacker offering for sale an “unredacted” version of the stolen data from the service that may include credit card information. The hacker, who goes …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: Comcast could buy Vox, who bought Re/Code, and they’re all interestingly linked

Somebody think of the children! Twitch bans streaming of adult games

Clothing retailer Hot Topic acquires ThinkGeek for $122m

Vox Media acquires tech blog Re/Code in an all-share deal

GigaOm acquired by company led by ex-Demand Media CIO Byron Reece

About bloody time: Twitter reported to be releasing Periscope for Android today

Cloud games platform provider Weeby.co acquires Vietnamese social app Tappy

Online gold savings and payment provider BitGold acquires GoldMoney for $42m

Cloud security platform provider Alarm.com files for $75m IPO

Unredacted Adult FriendFinder hacked data offered for 70 Bitcoin, may include CC records

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