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

Amazon books $214 million Q4 profit as Prime memberships surge

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Amazon reported a profit of $214 million for Q4 2014 off the back of a big increase in Prime membership sales. Net sales increased 15 percent to $29.33 billion in quarter, up from $25.59 billion Q4 2013. The figures would have been higher …

Google falls short of expectations despite record Q4 results

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc.’s Q4 earnings missed market expectations Thursday with the tech giant posting Q4 revenue of $18.1 billion ($14.48 billion minus traffic acquisitions costs), or $6.88 per share, against a prediction of $7.08 per share. Despite missing Wall Street predictions, the figures were a …

Mashable raises $17 million Series B, Business Insider raises $25 million

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Online media companies Mashable Inc. and Business Insider Inc. were both in the money Wednesday with announced new funding rounds of $17 million and $25 million respectively. Mashable’s Series B round was led by Time Warner Investments and included previous investors Elio …

Sony dumps its unloved Music Unlimited service in new deal with Spotify

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Sony Corp. is dumping its Music Unlimited music streaming service in a new partnership that will see music provided from Spotify Ltd. The new Spotify-powered service named “Playstation Music” will launch in 41 markets including the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil; of note …

Facebook Q4 revenue increases to $3.85 billion off the back of mobile ad growth

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has risen to new highs in the fourth quarter with the social networking giant posting $3.85 billion in revenue off the back of a surge in mobile advertising. Revenue from advertising came in at $3.59 billion, up 53 percent on the same …

Gem deploys Thales e-Security hardware security modules for more secure Bitcoin wallets

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin security platform provider Gem has announced the deployment of custom Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) from Thales e-Security that will now be offered as part of Gem’s Bitcoin wallet product. The HSM devices are used in 80 percent of global payment transactions and also …

Adiós: Cointerra goes bankrupt as Bitcoin mining now uneconomical

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin mining company Cointerra Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas after a fall in the price of Bitcoin made its Bitcoin mining business uneconomical. Problems at Cointerra first emerged January 14th when it was sued by Utah-based C7 Data Centers Inc., …

Snapchat launches rubbish curated content “Discover” service aimed at hipsters

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Snapchat Inc. launched its new curated news service Discover Tuesday in an attempt to broaden its offering outside of its core chat service. The service, which we previously covered pre-launch on January 22nd, is billed as “a new way to explore stories from …

Yahoo Q4 earnings down, Alibaba shares to be spun off into new company

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Yahoo Inc. announced its Q4 and yearly results Tuesday while at the same time announcing that it would spin off its remaining stake in Chinese E-Commerce giant Alibaba Inc. The financials weren’t great for Yahoo with the once internet-leading company seeing a …

Lizard Squad hacks Taylor Swift, offers nudes for Bitcoin

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Notorious hacking group Lizard Squad appears to have ticked off another entry on its achievements list today having successfully hacked the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Taylor Swift. The hack occurred Tuesday morning with multiple tweets appearing on Swift’s Twitter account; the first …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Amazon books $214 million Q4 profit as Prime memberships surge

Sony dumps its unloved Music Unlimited service in new deal with Spotify

Facebook Q4 revenue increases to $3.85 billion off the back of mobile ad growth

Gem deploys Thales e-Security hardware security modules for more secure Bitcoin wallets

Adiós: Cointerra goes bankrupt as Bitcoin mining now uneconomical

Snapchat launches rubbish curated content “Discover” service aimed at hipsters

Yahoo Q4 earnings down, Alibaba shares to be spun off into new company

Lizard Squad hacks Taylor Swift, offers nudes for Bitcoin

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