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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

Want to hack a RFID card? There’s an app for that

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Hackers in Chile have created and distributed an Android app that allows for easy RFID card hacking. The application ANDROIDOS_STIP.A, said to be “the first android application designed to attack NFC devices,” has primarily been designed to hack public transport cards. TrendLabs notes …

Suspect investment? Indiegogo has insurance for that

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Indiegogo Inc. is giving fans of crowd-funding some insurance…literally, by offering insurance for investors if their funded product of choice goes bust. According to reports, Indiegogo is testing an “Optional Insurance” fee that provides a refund if backers do not eventually receive the product …

MasterCard urges regulation of Bitcoin in Australia

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

MasterCard Inc. has set its sights on Bitcoin, telling the Australian Government to impose regulations against the anonymity of the digital currency. In a statement to the Australian Senate Economics References Committee’s inquiry into into digital currency, MasterCard argued that more must be …

Firefox wants in on iOS

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Mozilla Corporation has expressed interest in bringing its Firefox browser to the iOS ecosystem. Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale is reported to have made the disclosure to an audience at an internal Mozilla event, saying that “We need to be …

Cyber Monday spending up with big growth in mobile

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

IBM and comScore Inc. have released their annual reports on Cyber Monday, both stating that spending is up this year, with a big increase in mobile device ordering. The IBM study found that online sales on Cyber Monday grew 8.5 percent compared to 2013, …

Hacking Wall Street: group targets publicly traded companies

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Hacking has taken a new dimension, with a report claiming that a new group has been targeting companies for insider information to profit via market trading. FireEye, Inc. has released an intelligence report that details a financially motivated “threat group” that has …

Intel acquires identity management service PasswordBox

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has announced that it has acquired Montreal based identity management service PasswordBox Inc. The company, founded by Daniel Robichaud, had previously raised $8.2 million over two rounds, from investors including OMERS Ventures and Real Ventures. PasswordBox offers “an innovative free identity …

Study shows Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you think

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY12 YEARS AGO

University of Luxembourg researchers have published a paper that finds the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is not as anonymous as you think, and overcoming Bitcoin anonymity is neither hard nor expensive. The paper, presented to the Association of Computing Machinery conference by Alex Biryukov, Dmitry …

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