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

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Biggest tech & Big Data takeover ever: Dell acquires EMC for a staggering $67b

It’s official: Dell, Inc. has announced a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. The deal has been described by Bloomberg Business as the largest technology acquisition ever, with a deal that values EMC at a staggering $67 billion. The deal is split into Dell paying $24.05 a share in cash, plus ...

Big data takeover set to be announced Monday with Dell to acquire EMC for $50b+

Dell, Inc. is set to announce a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. later today (Monday). Re/Code makes the claim on the timing of the announcement, first rumored last week, and puts the takeover figure at above $50 billion, with talks on the deal said to have been conducted directly between ...

Social justice warrior forces Google to drop .bro extension in Brotli due to it being misogynistic

When does the file extension .bro come with sexist, evil, female-hating misogynistic overtones? Apparently it does when you live in the social justice-obsessed world of Silicon Valley with Google being forced to replace the extension in its new Brotli file compression software. Google launched the Brotli lossless compression algorithm under an open-source Apache license on ...

Purse.io denies Bitcoin theft despite compromise and multiple users saying they’ve been robbed

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has denied that a compromise over the weekend resulted in the theft of Bitcoin despite multiple users claiming to have had Bitcoin stolen from their accounts. Details of the theft first emerged on Reddit where users reported having unauthorized withdrawals from their Purse.io wallets, although fortunately ...

Apple kowtows to PRC Government by blocking its news app in China

Kowtowing once again to the Government of the People’s Republic of China, tech giant Apple is reported to be blocking its news app in the Middle Kingdom. The New York Times reports that while the app is only currently available to download in the United States, with trials underway in both the United Kingdom and ...

Etsy killer? Amazon launches a marketplace for handmade goods

Amazon.com, Inc. has entered the hand-crafted goods market with the launch of a new service Thursday. Called Handmade at Amazon, the service launched with a lineup of over 80,000 items from about 5,000 sellers in 60 countries. Listings in the service are filed under categories including Furniture, Jewelry, Home Décor, Artwork, and a number of ...

Apple admits that iPhone 6s battery life differs between who made the A9 chip, but not by much

Apple has surprisingly confirmed reports that the battery life on its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus varies depending on the manufacturer of the A9 chip that runs the phone, but claims that the variance is only very slight. Dubbed “batterygate” by some sites, the allegations about the iPhone’s stemmed from a test of the ...

No surprise as Facebook doesn’t do a dislike button but an emoji based reactions option instead

Despite the fact most of the media predicted that Facebook, Inc. was planning to launch a dislike button, the social networking goliath has instead started testing “Reactions,” an extension of the Facebook like button that allows (as the name may suggest) users to express a reaction about a post on Facebook. The new service, to ...

Winklevoss twins talk about their new Gemini Bitcoin exchange in a Reddit AMA

Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have celebrated the launch of their new Bitcoin exchange Gemini Trust Company LLC. this week by taking to Reddit to do an AMA (ask me anything). Despite the way they were perhaps portrayed in the movie The Social Network and perceptions around them since, one thing that stood out from ...

Amazon holding talks to deliver a new live TV streaming service

Amazon.com, Inc. may be looking to enter the live streaming television space with the company said to have been in talks to do exactly that. Dan Rayburn broke the news, writing on his Streaming Media blog that multiple content owners have told him that Amazon has been quietly asking them about licensing content for a ...