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

Bread and circuses: Uber promises jobs, environmental benefits if the EU will play nicely with it

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Uber Inc. has ramped up the sales pitch in Europe, with CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick telling an audience at the DLD conference Sunday that the company could deliver a range of benefits if Governments came to the table in making the service legal. …

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay ceases trading, founders may have stolen millions

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay has ceased trading, with unconfirmed reports that the founders of the company may have stolen millions in funds from clients. Problems at EgoPay surfaced late December when merchants started reporting that they were having problems with the EgoPay API …

Ross Ulbricht lawyer claims Mt Gox’s Mark Karpeles is Dread Pirate Roberts at Silk Road trial

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Lawyers representing alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht have accused disgraced former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles of being Dread Pirate Roberts, the operator and owner of Silk Road. As we reported January 13th, the defense strategy for Ulbricht, who is facing charges …

Obituary: Google Glass 2011-2015

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Glass. Born 2011 at Google X Lab, Mountain View, California. Died: January 15th, 2015 Mountain View, California. Glassholes across the world today mourned the passing of Google Glass, Google Inc.’s failed attempt at wearable smart eyewear. First prototyped by Google’s X lab …

Safer Bitcoin: Gem and expresscoin announce Bitcoin wallet partnership

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin security platform provider Gem has announced a new partnership with expresscoin Inc. that will see Gem’s API wallet made available to expresscoin users. The API wallet will power internal accounts and operations and eventually extend to powering co-branded end-user wallets providing an …

MySpace traffic up 575% to 50.6m uniques in November. Also MySpace still exists

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Former social network turned social music sharing service MySpace appears to be Lazarus rising in 2015 with news that traffic to the site is booming. According to the Wall Street Journal Myspace traffic hit 50.6 million unique viewers in November 2014, up …

Chinese taxi hailing app KuaiDi Dache takes $600M Series D from Alibaba, Softbank

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Chinese taxi-hailing app KuaiDi Dache (Travice Inc.) has raised $600 million Series D in a round that included Asian tech giants SoftBank Internet and Media Inc., and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Launched in 2012, KuaiDi Dache is among the most popular taxi-hailing apps in …

2020 vision: Google wants to partner with car makers on self driving tech

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. is reported to be in talks with a range of major car manufacturers to bring its self-driving car technology to the mainstream by 2020. Automakers in talks with Google include General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp, Daimler AG and …

Trouble in the Bitcoin mines: CoinTerra sued for not paying its bills

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin mining company CoinTerra Inc. is in a spot of bother today with news that it is being sued by a Utah data center operator for breach of contract and failure to pay $1.4 million for services. Bluffdale, Utah-based C7 Data Centers …

Nyet! Russia bans Bitcoin websites, may ban Bitcoin outright

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to at least seven Bitcoin related websites Tuesday on the grounds that the currency “contributes to the growth of the shadow economy.” ITAR Tass reported that Roskomnadzor claims the implementation of the ban follows a court …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bread and circuses: Uber promises jobs, environmental benefits if the EU will play nicely with it

Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay ceases trading, founders may have stolen millions

Ross Ulbricht lawyer claims Mt Gox’s Mark Karpeles is Dread Pirate Roberts at Silk Road trial

Obituary: Google Glass 2011-2015

Safer Bitcoin: Gem and expresscoin announce Bitcoin wallet partnership

MySpace traffic up 575% to 50.6m uniques in November. Also MySpace still exists

Chinese taxi hailing app KuaiDi Dache takes $600M Series D from Alibaba, Softbank

2020 vision: Google wants to partner with car makers on self driving tech

Trouble in the Bitcoin mines: CoinTerra sued for not paying its bills

Nyet! Russia bans Bitcoin websites, may ban Bitcoin outright

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