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

Factom’s Blockchain Land Registry Tool trial stalls due to the politics of Honduras

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Blockchain records management startup Factom, Inc. has hit a roadblock in its attempt to see its Land Registry Tool being put to use in an actual full country. The company announced a deal with the government of Honduras back in May that would …

Report claims cloud comms company Twilio has secretly filed for an IPO in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud communications company Twilio, Inc. may be one step closer to an initial public offering with a report on Christmas Day that it might be happening … again. According to The Wall Street Journal quoting the proverbial “people familiar with the matter,” Twilio …

China passes new law that will force companies to hand over encryption keys

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

China’s legislature passed a new law on Sunday that would force all tech companies to hand over their encryption keys to the government, irrespective of whether they were local or foreign players. The new law, said to be by government newsagency Xinhuanet …

Mimecast warns that companies need to be on the lookout as whaling attacks continue to rise

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, Inc. has issued a warning to organizations of an increased prevalence of targeted whaling attacks. Whaling attacks are a type of phishing attack that involves the use of email sent from spoofed or similar-sounding domain names and appears …

CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir raises $880m on a $20b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. has raised a staggering $880 million on a $20 billion valuation in a round that included Morgan Stanley and San Francisco Sentry, according to a regulatory filing the company made Wednesday. The news comes following …

The Beatles back catalog is available Christmas Eve on your favorite streaming service

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Beatlemania. extreme enthusiasm for the Beatles, as manifested in the frenzied behavior of their fans in the 1960s. Get your fashionable miniskirts and knee high boots on while screaming loudly because after a near eternal absence legandary British band The Beatles has …

Google employs mobile phone confirmations in new password free login test

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Remembering passwords can be a complete pain, let alone a security risk, but what if there was a way to access a site without the need for one? That’s the question Google, Inc. would appear to be addressing with the tech giant …

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix looks to raise $200m in 2016 IPO

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix, Inc. has filed in a S1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating its intention to go public in 2016. The company did not indicate how many shares it was offering in the …

Google said to be developing new messaging app with AI powered chat bot support

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google, Inc. is building a new messaging app to take on Facebook, Inc.’s Messenger and WhatsApp, according to a report Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal quotes “people familiar with the matter” as saying that the tech giant had been working on the …

Nearly broke Bitcoin mining company BTCS raises $1.4m to keep it going…for now

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Confirming that there’s a sucker born every minute, Bitcoin mining outfit BTCS, Inc. has raised $1.4 million in a post-IPO equity round led by Cavalry Fund LP. The funding comes after news via way of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing in …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Factom’s Blockchain Land Registry Tool trial stalls due to the politics of Honduras

Report claims cloud comms company Twilio has secretly filed for an IPO in 2016

China passes new law that will force companies to hand over encryption keys

Mimecast warns that companies need to be on the lookout as whaling attacks continue to rise

CIA backed Big Data analytics firm Palantir raises $880m on a $20b valuation

The Beatles back catalog is available Christmas Eve on your favorite streaming service

Google employs mobile phone confirmations in new password free login test

Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix looks to raise $200m in 2016 IPO

Google said to be developing new messaging app with AI powered chat bot support

Nearly broke Bitcoin mining company BTCS raises $1.4m to keep it going…for now

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