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

Report: Spotify in advanced talks to acquire Soundcloud

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Music streaming service Spotify AB is in advanced talks to acquire audio distribution platform provider Soundcloud Ltd., according to a report published Wednesday. The Financial Times notes that their sources are unclear on how much Spotify would pay for Soundcloud, and that …

Amazon to trial in-home delivery using smart home devices to gain access

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. may soon deliver goods not only to the outside of your home but inside of it as well, even when you’re not there. It may sound like magic, or alternatively breaking and entering. But the ability to deliver goods inside …

Microsoft to integrate Yammer Enterprise plan into Office 365

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it was retiring the Yammer Enterprise plan and integrating its features into Office 365 instead. The move comes some four years after Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. Microsoft will retire the standalone Yammer Enterprise plan on January …

New developer kit from Occipital finally delivers VR to iPhone users

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Virtual reality (VR) has seemingly passed Apple Inc. iPhone owners by, as the likes of Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Gear VR and Google Inc.’s Cardboard have dominated the mobile VR space. That drought is about to end. A Boulder, CO-based company you may …

Enterprise SaaS startup BlackLine preparing for IPO as soon as October

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Enterprise Software-as-a-Service startup Blackline Inc. is reported to be preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). According to Reuters, the float, which could happen as soon as October, would value the company at over $1 billion with BlackLine hiring investment bank Goldman …

First AI supercomputer: Microsoft rolls out FPGAs across data centers

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. is diving deeper into the chip business in hopes of boosting its prospects in artificial intelligence. The software giant is continuing its development of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to improve performance and provide new capabilities in the data center that …

Big Data analytics firm Palantir sued for alleged discrimination against Asian job candidates

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor on the grounds that it discriminates against Asian job candidates. The suit alleges that the company systematically rejected Asian applicants in the resume screening and telephone interview …

Move over, Salesforce and Google: Disney also might bid for Twitter

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Interest in the potential acquisition of Twitter Inc. continues to rise with a new report Monday claiming that Walt Disney Co. is also considering putting forward a bid for the company. Bloomberg broke the news, quoting people familiar with the matter as …

Snapchat’s upcoming Spectacles video glasses: cool or lame?

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

In case you missed the news over the weekend, the company formerly known as Snapchat Inc., now simply known as Snap Inc., has entered the hardware game with a new pair of connected sunglasses by the name of “Spectacles” that allows users to …

Ripple signs deal with banks to enable blockchain-based global money transfers

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may finally have some competition with a number of major global banks signing on with Ripple Labs Inc. to found a new group that will support a new global transfer system based on Ripple’s …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: Spotify in advanced talks to acquire Soundcloud

Amazon to trial in-home delivery using smart home devices to gain access

Microsoft to integrate Yammer Enterprise plan into Office 365

New developer kit from Occipital finally delivers VR to iPhone users

Enterprise SaaS startup BlackLine preparing for IPO as soon as October

First AI supercomputer: Microsoft rolls out FPGAs across data centers

Big Data analytics firm Palantir sued for alleged discrimination against Asian job candidates

Move over, Salesforce and Google: Disney also might bid for Twitter

Snapchat’s upcoming Spectacles video glasses: cool or lame?

Ripple signs deal with banks to enable blockchain-based global money transfers

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