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

Court appoints receiver in ongoing case against failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

In a positive sign for victims of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) a court has taken possession of the company’s assets, appointed a receiver and has suspended all powers of the company’s agents, employees, officers, and directors. The order came …

Panama Papers were obtained by an email server hack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The lawyers at the center of a scandal surrounding the release of data pertaining to the use of offshore accounts by the rich and famous have claimed that the data was obtained in a hack. If you’ve missed the story so far …

WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout, now turned on by default for all users

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Facebook, Inc.-owned messaging service WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it had completed its rollout of end-to-end encryption, meaning that every message, photo, video, file, and voice message sent on the service will be unable to be seen by any third party, including law …

Twitter obtains rights to stream Thursday Night Football in bizarre NFL deal

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. has signed a deal with the National Football League (NFL) to stream 10 Thursday night National Football League games during the 2016 season. Neither the NFL or Twitter confirmed the amount of the deal although Bloomberg …

Distributed P2P Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar opens for business

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Distributed peer-to-peer Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar has opened for business after one month of testing. Founded in 2014 as a fork of the DarkMarket project, OpenBazaar provides a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) e-commerce marketplace powered by Bitcoin payments that utilizes P2P networking, Ricardian …

Bank-backed Blockchain fintech consortium R3 signs partnership with Microsoft

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Bank backed Blockchain fintech development consortium R3 (R3CEV LLC) has signed a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp. to develop, test and deploy Blockchain technologies on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service cloud. If you’re not familiar with R3, the consortium was founded in 2015 …

Salesforce has acquired AI deep learning startup MetaMind

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com, Inc. has acquired deep learning startup MetaMind, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, MetaMind built an automated image recognition platform founded on deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that aimed to “simplify the complexity of our daily lives.” The …

Pathetic: Google/Alphabet owned Nest disables Revolv smart home devices

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Own a Revolv smart home device? The bad news is that you are completely and utterly screwed with news Monday that the Alphabet, Inc. (the company formerly known as Google) owned Nest isn’t just discontinuing Revolv device support, but actually disabling every …

Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt raises $4m Series A from Overstock.com

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Caribbean-based Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt, Inc. has raised $4 million Series A from Overstock.com, Inc. Founded in 2016, Bitt offers a digital asset exchange whose core focus is on providing access to cryptocurrencies in emerging markets with a high-frequency trading platform that …

UK copyright group proposes using browser based ransomware against alleged pirates

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Could ransomware be legal if it’s used to enforce copyright infringements? That’s a question that will soon need to be answered with a proposal floated by U.K. copyright enforcement group Rightscorp Ltd. that would see browser access denied to users accused of …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Court appoints receiver in ongoing case against failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy

Panama Papers were obtained by an email server hack

WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout, now turned on by default for all users

Twitter obtains rights to stream Thursday Night Football in bizarre NFL deal

Distributed P2P Bitcoin e-commerce platform OpenBazaar opens for business

Bank-backed Blockchain fintech consortium R3 signs partnership with Microsoft

Salesforce has acquired AI deep learning startup MetaMind

Pathetic: Google/Alphabet owned Nest disables Revolv smart home devices

Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt raises $4m Series A from Overstock.com

UK copyright group proposes using browser based ransomware against alleged pirates

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