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

BizOps platform startup Usermind raises $14.5m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Business operations platform startup Usermind, Inc. has raised $14.5 million Series B in a round led by Menlo Ventures that included previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and CRV. As part of the deal, Menlo Ventures Managing Director Matt Murphy is joining the Usermind …

Drones are now being used in South Africa to combat illegal poaching of endangered wildlife

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

When many think of drones they may think of Middle Eastern air strikes, smaller camera drones, or even attempts to utilize drones to make deliveries, but what if drones could be used to protect endangered wildlife? That’s exactly what The Lindbergh Foundation’s …

There’s now an Uber for escorts, and it has just raised venture capital in China

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Is there a demand for an Uber-like service for escorts? It turns out a venture capitalist in China believe the answer to that question is yes, with local on-demand escort service Come Rent Me (Hangzhou Ouch Technology Ltd) raising 5 million RMB …

Chrome extension that blocks ads on Bitcoin site found to steal Bitcoins as well

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A Chrome extension that promises to remove ads from a Bitcoin-related site is offering an additional feature users’ are unlikely to want, and that’s the theft of their Bitcoin’s when they attempt to make transfers on a number of leading Bitcoin exchanges. …

ROFL: Cryptsy offers bounty for the return of “stolen” Bitcoin in latest piece of absurd theatrics

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Just when it was thought that the saga of failed Bitcoin exchange Cryptsy (Project Investors, Inc.) couldn’t get any more absurd, it has, with the founder of the company offering a reward to a hacker who is alleged to have stolen funds …

Microsoft silently withdraws support for Bitcoin payments from the Win10 and Win Mobile stores

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s 15-month long love affair with Bitcoin may be coming to an end, with the tech giant quietly removing the option to pay for items using the cryptocurrency in the Windows 10 and Windows Mobile stores at some point in the last …

A new front in the encryption wars opens as Department of Justice targets WhatsApp

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The so-called encryption wars have spread to a new front with news over the weekend that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a new target: the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp. According to an exclusive story from The New York Times, DOJ prosecutors have …

Fujitsu, Mizuho run successful trial of Blockchain platform for securities transactions

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Japanese technology firm Fujitsu Limited, and subsidiary Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., along with bank Mizuho Bank, Ltd. have announced that they have successfully completed a trial of a Blockchain-derived platform for carrying out cross-border securities transactions. The trial, which ran for two months …

The Bank of England is designing a Bitcoin alternative of its own

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The United Kingdom’s Central Bank, the Bank of England, is working with researchers at University College London to design a Bitcoin clone of its own, according to a new report. MIT Technology Review details how the Bank began researching the idea of issuing …

Happy funding ending: On-demand massage startup Soothe raises $35m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

On-demand massage startup Soothe, Inc. has raised $35 million Series B in a round led by The Riverside Company. The valuation on the round was not disclosed. Founded in 2013, Soothe offers on-demand massage in 22 cities in the United States from …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

BizOps platform startup Usermind raises $14.5m Series B

Drones are now being used in South Africa to combat illegal poaching of endangered wildlife

There’s now an Uber for escorts, and it has just raised venture capital in China

Chrome extension that blocks ads on Bitcoin site found to steal Bitcoins as well

ROFL: Cryptsy offers bounty for the return of “stolen” Bitcoin in latest piece of absurd theatrics

Microsoft silently withdraws support for Bitcoin payments from the Win10 and Win Mobile stores

A new front in the encryption wars opens as Department of Justice targets WhatsApp

Fujitsu, Mizuho run successful trial of Blockchain platform for securities transactions

The Bank of England is designing a Bitcoin alternative of its own

Happy funding ending: On-demand massage startup Soothe raises $35m Series B

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