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

ANX acquires Bitcoin exchange CoinMKT for U.S. expansion

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin services company ANXBTC.COM (ANX) has acquired Santa Monica-based cryptocurrency exchange West Orange Labs, Inc (CoinMKT) for an undisclosed amount. CoinMKT opened its doors in 2013 and bills itself as being “positioned to be the leading exchange for cryptocurrency in the United …

Facebook and Instagram are down (UPDATE: now back up, Lizard Squad takes credit)

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Update: services are back up after a one hour outage, and hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility, see updates further down. It’s not just you: Facebook Inc. and Instagram services are down early Tuesday morning U.S. EST, and were inaccessible from anywhere on the …

Police accuse Google’s Waze of stalking them, want the tracking feature gone

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Police are demanding that Google Inc. turn off the police tracking feature in its Waze app as they believe it could be used for stalking them. Waze, acquired by Google for 1 billion in 2013, offers GPS navigation with community information sharing, …

Surface sales up, XBox sales down as Microsoft books revenue of $26.5 billion in Q2

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has booked $26.5 billion in revenue for its second quarter with sales increasing in its Surface and Mobile divisions, while XBox One sales declined. Operating income was reported at $7.8 billion/ $0.71 per share, in line with market expectations. The real …

P2P money startup TransferWise takes $58 million Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

P2P money transfer startup TransferWise Ltd has raised $58 million Series C in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that included previous investors Sir Richard Branson, Valar Ventures, Index Ventures, IA Ventures, and Seedcamp. Founded in 2011 by two former Skype employees Taavet Hinrikus …

Colorado man facing 5 years jail for buying and selling Bitcoin without a license

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin trader Burton Wagner is facing five years in jail after being arrested in Colorado for the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business. In a filing to the United States District Court, the Federal Government claims that Wagner “did knowingly conduct, control, …

404 plane not found: Lizard Squad hacks Malaysian Airlines site

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Malaysian Airlines has come to the attention of the infamous Lizard Squad with their site being hacked today to show the message “404 Plane Not Found.” The message is related to the unresolved mystery of flight MH17, a Kuala Lumpur to Beijing …

Millions stolen: Inside the elaborate Bitcoin scams of Tadas Kasputis, EgoPay, Virtex.com & Paymentbase

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Mt Gox has become the ongoing meme for any negative story in the Bitcoin space. It is, and remains to date the largest loss by any Bitcoin exchange, but unlike what we are about to describe to you, it was anything other …

Snapchat hires journos in push to become an original content publisher

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Snapchat Inc. is entering the publishing space after hiring an unspecified number of journalists to create original content. The chat app is to direct the content to its new Discover feature at the end of the month. As part of the new feature …

Former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown jailed for 63 months

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was sentence to 63 months in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to charges of transmitting threats, accessory to hacking, and interfering with the execution of a search warrant. Barrett’s crimes relate to the hacking of global …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

ANX acquires Bitcoin exchange CoinMKT for U.S. expansion

Facebook and Instagram are down (UPDATE: now back up, Lizard Squad takes credit)

Police accuse Google’s Waze of stalking them, want the tracking feature gone

Surface sales up, XBox sales down as Microsoft books revenue of $26.5 billion in Q2

P2P money startup TransferWise takes $58 million Series C

Colorado man facing 5 years jail for buying and selling Bitcoin without a license

404 plane not found: Lizard Squad hacks Malaysian Airlines site

Millions stolen: Inside the elaborate Bitcoin scams of Tadas Kasputis, EgoPay, Virtex.com & Paymentbase

Snapchat hires journos in push to become an original content publisher

Former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown jailed for 63 months

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