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

VC funded tech site Gigaom shuts after running out of money

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Pioneering tech blog Gigaom today announced that it was ceasing trading due to an inability to pay its bills. Founded by former Forbes writer Om Malik in 2006, Gigaom was among the first wave of big, influential tech blogs that emerged in the …

News Corp acquires Indian information services group VCCircle

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

News Corporation has acquired Indian information services group Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd., the owner of the VCCircle Network. The VCCircle Network consists of a range of sites, all (as their name may suggest) providing information and services primarily to venture capital investors. …

Poor form: Latest version of uTorrent sneakily installs miner for Bitcoin alternative Litecoin

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

BitTorrent Inc.’s popular torrent software uTorrent is under fire from users after it was discovered that the latest version secretly installs a cryptocurrency miner as part of the package. The secret miner, named Epic Scale, mines for an altcoin named Litecoin, a competitor …

Police arrest five people over HK Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin scam

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Five people connected to disgraced Hong Kong-based Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin are reported to have been arrested Thursday. The South China Morning Post claims that the five arrested may not have been running the scam, but were promoters of it, saying that three women …

Strange bedfellows: Google deal with Microsoft sees AngularJS 2 adopting TypeScript

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

In one of the more interesting meetings of minds in recent times, Google Inc., and Microsoft Corp. have announced that they are working together to merge two of their javascript technologies into the one platform. The announcement sees Microsoft’s TypeScript becoming the scripting …

Search solutions startup Swiftype raises $13 million Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Search solutions startup Swiftype Inc. has raised $13 million Series B in a round from New Enterprise Associates. Based in San Francisco, Swiftype offers a hosted search solution that allows site owners to deliver customizable search for their website or mobile app with …

Bitcoin conspiracies, millions stolen and threats of legal action: The EgoPay scam over one month on

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

It has been over one month since SiliconANGLE reported exclusively on the intricate web behind one of the biggest Bitcoin scams since Mt. Gox, the tale of Tadas Kasputis and his related Bitcoin companies, EgoPay, Virtex.com and PaymentBase. Since first exposing the elaborate scam, this site …

SaaS Capital raises $58 million to fund software as a service companies

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

SaaS Capital has announced that it has closed its second fund with $58 million in limited partner commitments. SaaS Capital’s first fund, which closed in May 2012, raised $22.5 million in limited partner commitments and provided funding to 14 software as a service …

The end of an era: EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind The Sims and Simcity

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Eletronic Arts Inc. (EA) has closed Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind games including The Sims and Simcity. The news first came via Twitter when game designer Guillaume Pierre tweeted “Well it was a fun 12 years, but it’s time to turn off the lights …

IBM acquires deep learning startup AlchemyAPI to boost human-like computing services

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has acquired deep learning startup AlchemyAPI Inc. According to Reuters, the purchase is designed to boost IBM’s push into more human-like computing services, based around its Watson technology. Founded in 2005, AlchemyAPI is a deep learning-based artificial intelligence …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

VC funded tech site Gigaom shuts after running out of money

News Corp acquires Indian information services group VCCircle

Poor form: Latest version of uTorrent sneakily installs miner for Bitcoin alternative Litecoin

Police arrest five people over HK Bitcoin marketplace MyCoin scam

Strange bedfellows: Google deal with Microsoft sees AngularJS 2 adopting TypeScript

Search solutions startup Swiftype raises $13 million Series B

Bitcoin conspiracies, millions stolen and threats of legal action: The EgoPay scam over one month on

SaaS Capital raises $58 million to fund software as a service companies

The end of an era: EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville, the studio behind The Sims and Simcity

IBM acquires deep learning startup AlchemyAPI to boost human-like computing services

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