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

Atlassian snaps up real-time chat and messaging provider Hall to boost HipChat

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

SaaS enterprise solutions provider Atlassian Pty. Ltd. has acquired real-time chat and messaging provider Hall Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2011 originally as Companyline, Hall offers a platform that is said to help teams and companies communicate in real-time. The …

SaaS work management platform provider Wrike raises $15m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Work management and collaboration platform provider Wrike has raised $15 million Series B in a round led by Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) that included DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures. As part of the deal, ScaleVP Partner Rory O’Driscoll has joined …

Golden: Bill Maris of Google Ventures compares Secret founders to bank robbers

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

When anonymous messaging app Secret shut its doors last week, one aspect of the story that stood out was that the two founders of the startup had cashed out $6 million in shares prior to its closure, with one founder, Secret Chief Executive …

SunGard looking to IPO on a $7 billion valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

SunGard Data Systems Inc. is said to be preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) according to multiple reports Tuesday. Reuters reported that JPMorgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Credit Suisse has been appointed to lead the IPO, although the …

Report: Microsoft considering a bid for Salesforce

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Shares in Salesforce.com Inc. surged Tuesday after a report emerged that Microsoft Corp. might be interested in the software as a service (SaaS) CRM firm. Bloomberg claimed that “people with knowledge of the matter” say that the Redmond, Washington, based tech giant is …

Container wars heat up as CoreOS spins off appc into separate foundation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Linux distribution provider CoreOS, Inc. has taken the battle for a Linux container standard in a new direction by spinning off its App Container Spec (appc) project into a separate foundation. CoreOS launched its own App Container back in 2014 in what …

Newly born unicorn: Cloud comms startup Twilio raises $100m Series E on $1.1b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc., has raised $100 million Series E on a valuation of $1.1 billion, making the company a newly born baby unicorn. Details of the investors were not available, but the round was discovered in a filing dated April 24 …

Too little, too late? Foursquare reintroduces badges, mayorships to Swarm

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Foursquare Inc. has undertaken a backflip worthy of an Olympic gold medal and has decided to reintroduce badges and mayorships to its Swarm app. The original Foursquare app (now represented by the Swarm app) was a geolocation check-in service that was part …

Power to the people: Facebook testing ways to customize top of news feed

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Mark Zuckerberg and the friendly team at Facebook Inc., like nothing more than screwing with news feeds to better make money, but for once they might actually be giving some power back to users. A new test being undertaken by the social …

Periscope & Meerkat users stream Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, when will HBO/ Showtime sue?

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Meerket, Inc. and Twitter, Inc.’s Periscope may find themselves at the end of legal action from HBO and Showtime after users flooded both services with illegal streams of the “Fight of the Century” on Saturday evening. The Pacquiao-Mayweather fight was only available …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Atlassian snaps up real-time chat and messaging provider Hall to boost HipChat

SaaS work management platform provider Wrike raises $15m Series B

Golden: Bill Maris of Google Ventures compares Secret founders to bank robbers

SunGard looking to IPO on a $7 billion valuation

Report: Microsoft considering a bid for Salesforce

Container wars heat up as CoreOS spins off appc into separate foundation

Too little, too late? Foursquare reintroduces badges, mayorships to Swarm

Power to the people: Facebook testing ways to customize top of news feed

Periscope & Meerkat users stream Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, when will HBO/ Showtime sue?

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