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

Lucasfilm and Magic Leap sign deal that will bring Star Wars characters to augmented reality

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Google-backed augmented reality startup Magic Leap, Inc. has signed a deal with the Walt Disney Company owned Lucasfilm Ltd. to bring Star Wars characters to Magic Leap’s yet to be launched augmented reality headset. The announcement, made at the Wired Business Conference …

Twitter, Facebook & Google sued for providing material support to ISIS

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Twitter, Inc., Google, Inc., and Facebook, Inc. are being sued by the father of a victim of the Paris Islamic terrorist attacks in November 2015 on the basis that the companies “provided material support” to the terrorist group The Islamic State of …

Online bank WB21 now accepts Bitcoin for transfers and deposits

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Online bank WB21 Group Holdings SA has announced that it has added Bitcoin as a method for its customers to transfer and deposit funds to their checking accounts, making them the first registered bank to do so. WB21, for those not familiar …

Facebook spammer Sanford “Spam King” Wallace given 30 months in jail

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Notorious spammer Sanford Wallace, better known by his self-proclaimed nickname of “spam king,” is going to jail after being found guilty of electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court. Wallace was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay …

Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing raises $7b including $1b from Apple

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Chinese ridesharing service and Uber, Inc. rival Didi Chuxing Technology Co. (formerly Didi Kuaidi) has raised $7 billion in new capital that included $4.5 billion in traditional fundraising and a debt facility of $2.5 billion. The $4.5 billion includes a previously disclosed …

Adiós Flash: Apple to disable plugins in Safari 10 in favor of HTML 5

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Apple, Inc.’s latest web browser Safari 10, which will ship later this year with macOS Sierra, will disable common plug-ins and preference HTML 5 content in an effort to improve the web browsing experience. The new browser will disable Adobe Flash, Java, …

In memoriam: Yahoo to shut down legacy Messenger app August 5

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Remember dial-up modems and Yahoo Messenger? The first is a long gone memory, but the original Yahoo Messenger, launched in 1998, has somehow managed to keep going, that is until now with Yahoo, Inc. announcing that the original service, as opposed to …

Scum scammer asks for Bitcoin donations for Orlando terrorist victims via Twitter

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A scammer has targeted people wishing to donate following the Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida June 12. A fake Twitter account under the name of @PulseOrlandoUSA (since suspended) pretending to represent the nightclub was for a time soliciting …

Twitter invests $70m as part of SoundCloud $100m Series E round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Audio distribution platform provider SoundCloud Ltd. has raised around $100 million Series E in a round that was led by Twitter, Inc. with an investment of $70 million. According to Re/Code who broke the story, the round was raised on a $700 …

New FLocker ransomware can attack Android-powered smart televisions

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new form of ransomware that can attack Android-powered smart televisions has been discovered by security researchers at Trend Micro, Inc. Dubbed FLocker (short for the Frantic Locker), the malware has been in circulation since at least April 2015 and has previously …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Lucasfilm and Magic Leap sign deal that will bring Star Wars characters to augmented reality

Twitter, Facebook & Google sued for providing material support to ISIS

Online bank WB21 now accepts Bitcoin for transfers and deposits

Facebook spammer Sanford “Spam King” Wallace given 30 months in jail

Adiós Flash: Apple to disable plugins in Safari 10 in favor of HTML 5

In memoriam: Yahoo to shut down legacy Messenger app August 5

Scum scammer asks for Bitcoin donations for Orlando terrorist victims via Twitter

Twitter invests $70m as part of SoundCloud $100m Series E round

New FLocker ransomware can attack Android-powered smart televisions

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