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

Apple eats humble pie, apologizes over Error 53 and issues a fix

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple, Inc. has eaten some humble pie and apologized for the Error 53 issue while at the same time issuing a fix. If you’ve not been following the news, iPhone users who had the Touch ID sensor in their phones repaired by a …

Report: Facebook Messenger to get advertising in Q2

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. is planning to introduce advertising on its Messenger app, according to a report published Thursday. TechCrunch quotes from an alleged “leaked” document that details the plan, which will apparently see advertisers being able to send ads via …

Hollywood hospital coughs up Bitcoin to end ransomware attack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center revealed Wednesday that it had decided to pay the ransom to hackers who had infected their computer system with ransomware. Although initial reports suggested that the ransom demanded was 9000 Bitcoin ($3.6 million), the amount paid by …

Protests planned as Government demands iPhone backdoor from Apple

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

News that the United States Government is demanding that Apple, Inc. build a backdoor into the iPhone has prompted an unprecedented response, including the first of many rallies to come from concerned iPhone users and civil liberties supporters. The original news came …

Dead in the water: Leaked numbers show Yahoo’s core sites are bleeding traffic

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

It’s well known that Yahoo, Inc.’s glory days are long behind it but one little-known fact is that its core products, search, mail, and its home page, have remained relatively strong… that is until now. According to internal data obtained by The …

New report finds most businesses ill-equipped to defend against email-based cyberattacks

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

New research from cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, Inc. has found that a majority of global businesses are ill-equipped to defend against email-based cyberattacks. The study: Mimecast Business Email Threat Report 2016, Email Security Uncovered, surveyed 600 IT security professionals and found …

Google Ideas think tank now Jigsaw, spun off as a standalone entity under Alphabet

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google Ideas, a think tank and lab that was perhaps best known for products such as ProjectShield and uProxy, has been spun off as Jigsaw and will now operate as a standalone entity under Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. Alphabet Executive Chairman …

Oops: Samsung Indonesia posts Galaxy S7 video confirming waterproofing, wireless/rapid charging

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Another day, another doozy of a leak around Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Galaxy S7, and this one is a good one: an actual promotion video out of Indonesia. News of the video comes via Phone Probe, which discovered a promotion page for …

Animated GIF search engine Giphy raises $55m Series C on $300m valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Animated GIF search engine Giphy, Inc. has raised $55 million Series C in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that included General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and other unnamed existing investors. According to reports, the round was …

Bitcoin demanded as Hollywood hospital computer systems shut down in ransomware attack

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

How low can a ransomware attacker go? The answer to that question is apparently a hospital, with news that computers at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have been taken offline following a ransomware attack. According to reports, the people behind the hack …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Apple eats humble pie, apologizes over Error 53 and issues a fix

Report: Facebook Messenger to get advertising in Q2

Hollywood hospital coughs up Bitcoin to end ransomware attack

Protests planned as Government demands iPhone backdoor from Apple

Dead in the water: Leaked numbers show Yahoo’s core sites are bleeding traffic

New report finds most businesses ill-equipped to defend against email-based cyberattacks

Google Ideas think tank now Jigsaw, spun off as a standalone entity under Alphabet

Oops: Samsung Indonesia posts Galaxy S7 video confirming waterproofing, wireless/rapid charging

Animated GIF search engine Giphy raises $55m Series C on $300m valuation

Bitcoin demanded as Hollywood hospital computer systems shut down in ransomware attack

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