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

Tasty open standards: Pornhub to dump Flash in favor of HTML5

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The march of HTML 5 dominance across the web has received an arousing boost with the news that popular porn site Pornhub is dumping flash in favor of the open web standard. Whereas porn usually leads when it comes to embracing new technologies, …

Online sales marketplace OfferUp raises $119m Series C on $1b+ valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Online sales marketplace OfferUp Inc. has raised $119 million Series C in a round led by Warburg Pincus and including GGV Capital and Altimeter Capital. According to reports, the valuation on the round was $1 billion-plus, giving the company unicorn status for …

Digital ID verification firm Jumio raises $15m in new round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Digital ID verification firm Jumio Corp. has raised $15 million in a new round that included Centana Growth Partners LP and Millennium Technology Value Partners. Founded in 2010, Jumio offers next-generation digital ID verification that is claimed to enable businesses to reduce …

Amazon, Apple, Google, Fox News, EFF & Mozilla back Microsoft in 4th amendment case against DoJ

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Fox News, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Mozilla Foundation are supporting a court case brought by Microsoft against the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) that is attempting to put an end to a law that prevents …

Video infrastructure startup Bitmovin raises $10.3m Series A

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Video infrastructure startup Bitmovin, Inc. has raises $10.3 million Series A in a round led by Atomico. Founded in 2013, Bitmovin offers a platform that improves video quality on the web by enabling “fastest cloud encoding” by using a proprietary encoding service. …

Details of 43m+ accounts obtained in Last.fm hack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Another day, another revelation about a historical hack. Following on from Dropbox, Inc. earlier this week comes details from the hacking of music website Last.fm in 2012. According to breach notification site LeakedSource, who obtained a copy of the database obtained in …

Report: Google said to have scrapped its plans to bring Project Ara modular phone to market

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Google is said to have scrapped its plans to bring to market its Project Ara modular smartphone as part of a push to streamline its hardware efforts according to an unconfirmed report published Thursday. Reuters makes the claim quoting “sources familiar with …

Samsung set to recall Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries in less than 0.1% of phones

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

In a serious blow to its global resurgence as the world’s most popular smartphone maker, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is preparing a global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 due to a manufacturing default, according to a report from South Korea published …

Singapore proposes regulatory framework for payment service providers including bitcoin

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Government of Singapore has proposed a new regulatory framework for payments providers, including digital currency exchanges dealing with bitcoin. Under the proposal made by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, companies dealing in bitcoin would be required to obtain a license with …

SWIFT discloses more cyber attacks as it urges member banks to upgrade their security

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) has revealed that more banks have been targeted in cyber attacks, following attacks on a bank in Bangladesh and another unnamed bank earlier in 2016. In a letter sent to member institutions, SWIFT urged …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Tasty open standards: Pornhub to dump Flash in favor of HTML5

Online sales marketplace OfferUp raises $119m Series C on $1b+ valuation

Digital ID verification firm Jumio raises $15m in new round

Amazon, Apple, Google, Fox News, EFF & Mozilla back Microsoft in 4th amendment case against DoJ

Video infrastructure startup Bitmovin raises $10.3m Series A

Details of 43m+ accounts obtained in Last.fm hack

Report: Google said to have scrapped its plans to bring Project Ara modular phone to market

Samsung set to recall Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries in less than 0.1% of phones

Singapore proposes regulatory framework for payment service providers including bitcoin

SWIFT discloses more cyber attacks as it urges member banks to upgrade their security

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