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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Telegram desktop apps discovered to be leaking user IP addresses

Messaging app Telegram has long been favored for its security, including encryption deployed as standard. But a recently discovered flaw in desktop versions of Telegram has been found to be exposing IP addresses. Discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra, the flaw in the Windows app and Telegram Desktop app exposes and records the IP address of a ...

Cryptocurrency exchanges accused of colluding to take control of EOS Blockchain

There’s yet more drama with the EOS Blockchain amid new accusations that Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges have been colluding to take control of the platform. The EOS blockchain is an “operating system” platform that can be compared to a cloud computing service such as Amazon Web Services Inc.’s. Parent company Block.One raised a record $4 billion in ...

Google is testing serious game streaming via a new Chrome service

Google LLC is moving forward with its game streaming project with a new partnership with Ubisoft Entertainment SA and a trial of a blockbuster game to go with it. Previously known internally as “Yeti,” the service, now known as Project Stream, is a “technical test to solve some of the biggest challenges of streaming,” according ...

Facebook appoints Adam Mosseri to lead Instagram after resignation of founders

Facebook Inc. today appointed Adam Mosseri, previously Instagram’s vice president of product, to lead the photo-sharing social network following the resignation of co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger Sept. 24. In an effort to allay fears of internal dissent, the announcement was made by Systrom (pictured, right) and Krieger (left), who posed smiling together with Mosseri ...

Ad chief Sridhar Ramaswamy leaves Google to join Greylock Partners

It’s the end of an era at Google LLC as Sridhar Ramaswamy, the internet giant’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce, left the company today after 15 years to take up a position with venture capital firm Greylock Partners. Ramaswamy (pictured), who joined Google in 2003 and became head of the ad business five ...

Facebook could face EU fine of up to $1.63B over latest data breach

Facebook Inc. could be fined as much as $1.63 billion by the European Union over a data breach revealed Friday that compromised the accounts of 50 million users. The Wall Street Journal suggested the figure Sunday, reporting that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which is charged with investigating Facebook on behalf of the EU, has demanded information from ...

Musk out as chairman but remains CEO as Tesla settles SEC lawsuit

Elon Musk is out as the chairman of Tesla Inc., but will remain chief executive, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that threatened to ban him as a director or executive of any public company. The suit, filed in federal district court in the Southern District ...

Feds called in as the Port of San Diego is crippled by a ransomware attack

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security have been called in to investigate a ransomware attack that has crippled the computer network of the Port of San Diego. In a statement statement Wednesday, the Port Authority said that experienced “a serious cybersecurity incident that has disrupted the agency’s information technology systems.” The ...

Cloudflare seeks to disrupt domain registration market with cut price new service

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. is seeking to disrupt the domain name registration market with a new service that promises to only charge the wholesale cost, without profit, for domain names. Cloudflare Registrar, pitched Thursday as “domain registration you can love,” sees the company offers support for .com, .net and hundreds of other top ...

Swiss ‘cryptobank’ startup SEBA raises $102M in funding

SEBA Crypto AG, a Swiss startup founded by former UBS Group AG managers has raised 100 million Swiss francs ($102 million) in funding to build what is described as a “cryptobank.” The funding came from domestic and foreign institutional and private investors, including BlackRiver Asset Management and Summer Capital. The company is headed by former UBS managers Guido ...