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

Pokemon GO goes down following DDoS attack from Poodle Corp.

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A group by the name of Poodle Corp. has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack that has taken the servers of insanely popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO offline. The attack, which started just prior to the game …

Mt Gox bitcoin fraudster Mark Karpeles released on bail in Japan

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Disgraced former Mt Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles has been released on bail in Japan following his detention in July last year on multiple charges relating to the collapse of the bitcoin exchange in 2014. According to News24 (in Japanese) Karpeles …

Bitcoin wallet provider iPayYou adds “Pay-by-Twitter” feature

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin wallet provider iPayYou, Inc. has launched a new “Pay-by-Twitter” feature that allows users to make peer-to-peer payments on Twitter. iPayYou is claimed to be the first bitcoin wallet that enables Twitter’s 310 million monthly users to make peer-to-peer payments over Twitter. …

Winkevoss twins’ bitcoin exchange Gemini signs partnership with eSports org Echo Fox

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The Wilkenvoss twins’ bitcoin exchange the Gemini Trust Company LLC has signed a new partnership and sponsorship deal with professional eSports organization Echo Fox. Under the deal, Gemini will work with Echo Fox to integrate bitcoin payments into the eSports industry, and …

Line Corp shares surge on NYSE debut in biggest tech float of 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Messaging services company Line Corp. floated on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday with shares debuting at $42, a premium of 33 percent of its initial public offering price of $32.84. making it the biggest float of a technology company in 2016. …

BitTorrent to launch new live news service at Republican National Convention

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

CNN, Fox News, MSNBC … BitTorrent. The addition of BitTorrent, Inc. to the list of news channels is about to become reality, with the company announcing that it will be launching its new live news channel BitTorrent News at the Republican National …

Pokemon GO users targeted it phishing scam that demands money to keep playing the game

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Augmented reality game Pokemon GO has been an unprecedented success, but where ever there is something highly successful cybercriminals are sure to follow and sadly a new phishing scam is doing just that. The new Pokemon GO phishing scam involves users receiving …

Unity Technologies, the company that provides the platform behind Pokemon GO, raises $181m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Gaming platform provider Unity Technologies, Inc., the company that provided the engine that powers the insanely popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO, has raised $181 million Series C in a round led by DFJ Growth that included China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, …

Blockchain startup SolidX files for IPO of its Bitcoin Trust ETF

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Blockchain technology startup SolidX Partners, Inc. have filed the paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) for their SolidX Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would offer exposure to bitcoin. According to their S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange …

Pokemon GO backlash grows with attacks on everything from privacy through to it being a capitalist conspiracy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The backlash against crazily popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO continues to grow, with questions ranging from privacy through to it (seriously) being a capitalist big business plot. Starting at the stupid, but perhaps least insane argument is that of privacy, with revelations …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Pokemon GO goes down following DDoS attack from Poodle Corp.

Mt Gox bitcoin fraudster Mark Karpeles released on bail in Japan

Bitcoin wallet provider iPayYou adds “Pay-by-Twitter” feature

Winkevoss twins’ bitcoin exchange Gemini signs partnership with eSports org Echo Fox

Line Corp shares surge on NYSE debut in biggest tech float of 2016

BitTorrent to launch new live news service at Republican National Convention

Pokemon GO users targeted it phishing scam that demands money to keep playing the game

Unity Technologies, the company that provides the platform behind Pokemon GO, raises $181m

Blockchain startup SolidX files for IPO of its Bitcoin Trust ETF

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