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

Deep linking platform provider Branch Metrics raises $35m Series B

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Deep linking startup Branch Metrics, Inc. has raised $35 million Series B in a round led by Founders Fund that included New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pejman Mar Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Zach Coelius, Ben Narasin, and Madrona Venture Group. Founded in 2014, Branch …

ThreatTrack research finds enterprises are losing ground in the defense against APTs

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

New research from cyber security firm ThreatTrack Security has found that enterprises are losing ground when it comes to defending themselves from advanced persistent threats (APTs). The research, which involved a blind survey of 200 security professionals dealing with malware analysis, found …

Car insurance comparison platform startup The Zebra raises $17m Series A

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Car insurance comparison platform startup The Zebra (Insurance Zebra, Inc.) has raised $17 million Series A in a round that included Mark Cuban, Mike Maples Jr., Simon Nixon, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital and Ballast Point Ventures. Founded in 2012, The Zebra aims …

SaaS workplace training startup Grovo raises $40m Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) workplace training startup Grovo, Inc. has raised $40 million Series C in a round led by Accel Partners that included Costanoa Venture Capital, SoftTech VC, Greg Waldorf, and Vayner Capital. Founded in 2010, Grovo describes itself as “reinventing learning for …

Apple delivers another quarterly financial record but predicts iPhone sales will start to decline

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple broke its own quarterly records once again in the last quarter of 2015, but this may be the last record quarter for the technology giant as iPhone sales begin to slow. For the quarter ending December 26, 2015, Apple made a …

Bitcoin Vietnam and Coinify sign deal to provide Bitcoin merchant services in local market

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd. and Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS have announced a new deal that will see Coinify’s Blockchain powered merchant processing tools deployed in the Vietnamese market. Under the deal Vietnamese merchants will now be able to …

Instagram advertising is going gangbusters, according to new data

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Advertising on the Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram is going gangbusters, according to new data. Marketing software company Brand Networks, LLC, an advertising partner for the app, has revealed in a report (pdf) that since Facebook launched its Instagram advertising API mid …

Amazon wants back in on smartphones, trying to entice OEMs to integrate its services

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Despite the failure of its Fire phone, Amazon.com, Inc. still wants a slice of the phone market and is attempting to get Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to deeply integrate its services into handsets. According to The Information (subscription only), Amazon has discussed …

Twitter shares plummet as company confirms executive purge

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Stocks in Twitter, Inc. dived in trading Monday following confirmation that the company has “lost” five key executives in the latest sign of trouble for the declining social platform provider. Rumors of the purge at Twitter first emerged Sunday, resulting in a …

Not the future: I tried the HTC Vive VR headset and was seriously underwhelmed

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Multiple virtual reality (VR) headsets are coming to market in 2016, and first up is HTC Corporation’s Vive headset. I had the opportunity to test the Vive Developer Edition on Saturday at a demonstration at my local coworking space with fellow SiliconANGLE …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Deep linking platform provider Branch Metrics raises $35m Series B

ThreatTrack research finds enterprises are losing ground in the defense against APTs

Car insurance comparison platform startup The Zebra raises $17m Series A

SaaS workplace training startup Grovo raises $40m Series C

Apple delivers another quarterly financial record but predicts iPhone sales will start to decline

Bitcoin Vietnam and Coinify sign deal to provide Bitcoin merchant services in local market

Instagram advertising is going gangbusters, according to new data

Amazon wants back in on smartphones, trying to entice OEMs to integrate its services

Twitter shares plummet as company confirms executive purge

Not the future: I tried the HTC Vive VR headset and was seriously underwhelmed

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