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

Google acquires Facebook marketing company Toro, but we’re not quite sure why

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. has acquired Facebook marketing company Toro (Red Hot Labs Inc.) for an undisclosed price. Based in San Francisco, Toro claims its services offers the best way to run high performance Facebook campaigns for mobile apps. Their service offers split testing …

Good buy: Cloud comms company Twilio acquires 2FA startup Authy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. has acquired Authy Inc., a provider of two-factor authentication (2FA) for large-scale web and mobile applications. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2012, Authy claims that it is the simplest way to add two-factor authentication …

Google bans sexually explicit material, graphic nudity on Blogger

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Is Google now a massive multi-billion dollar prude? It could well be, with the tech giant announcing that it is banning publicly viewable sexually explicit material and graphic nudity on its blogging service Blogger. The company started to inform users Monday of the forthcoming …

Apple reported to have acquired audio software maker Camel Audio

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is reported to have acquired audio software maker Camel Audio Inc. for an unknown sum. There’s no official announcement about the acquisition, but it has been confirmed by way of company registration in the United Kingdom. According to Macrumors Camel Audio has appointed …

E-commerce giant Rakuten may start accepting Bitcoin payments

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. may start accepting Bitcoin after CEO Hiroshi Mikitani confirmed the company was considering the move. “We are thinking about it, and we probably will,” Mikitani told the audience at the Rakuten Financial Conference, “We would like to be …

Mintpal scammer Ryan Kennedy arrested in U.K. over theft of 3,700 Bitcoins

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Former Moolah CEO Ryan Kennedy has been arrested over the theft of 3,700 Bitcoins from the now defunct Bitcoin exchange Mintpal. Troubles at Mintpal first emerged in July 2014 when the company reported that it had been “hacked” and had lost a …

Parents rejoice: Google launches YouTube Kids on iOS and Android

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc.’s video giant YouTube has today officially launched YouTube Kids, an iOS and Android app that, as the name may suggest, presents a kid-friendly version of YouTube. Rumors of the apps first surfaced last week, but YouTube made it official today in …

It has curves! First official picture of the Samsung Galaxy S6

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

The first official picture of Samsung Co. Ltd.’s upcoming new flagship mobile the Galaxy S6 has been released, and it definitely has curves! The picture, featured above, comes via T-Mobile CEO John Legere who tweeted a link to a page on the …

Comodo accused of shipping adware that’s worse than Superfish, breaks HTTPS security

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Online security firm Comodo Group Inc. has been accused of shipping adware that is “worse than Superfish,” another form of adware that Lenovo was slammed for shipping with laptops February 19th. Comodo bundles adware from AdTrustMedia called “Privdog” with its security products, including …

Kevin Rose fails with first mobile app, announces closure of Tiiny

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Kevin Rose’s app startup North Technologies Inc. has announced the closure of its first app, the small photo and video sharing app Tiiny. Launched in 2013, the app let users take a thumbnail-sized photo or video and share it to a 3×4 grid on the Tiiny …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Google acquires Facebook marketing company Toro, but we’re not quite sure why

Good buy: Cloud comms company Twilio acquires 2FA startup Authy

Google bans sexually explicit material, graphic nudity on Blogger

Apple reported to have acquired audio software maker Camel Audio

E-commerce giant Rakuten may start accepting Bitcoin payments

Mintpal scammer Ryan Kennedy arrested in U.K. over theft of 3,700 Bitcoins

Parents rejoice: Google launches YouTube Kids on iOS and Android

It has curves! First official picture of the Samsung Galaxy S6

Comodo accused of shipping adware that’s worse than Superfish, breaks HTTPS security

Kevin Rose fails with first mobile app, announces closure of Tiiny

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