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

Fascinating AI powered video search startup Valossa raises a $650k seed round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence (AI) powered video search firm Valossa Labs Oy has raised a $650,000 seed round that included Butterfly Ventures and several Finnish angel investors. Founded in September this year by a development team of Ph.D.’s, graduate students and M.Sc.’s from the …

Hello Kitty hacked with the data of 3.3m users making its way online

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

The database for the site sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other characters from Japanese kawaii character maker Sanrio Co. Ltd. has been hacked with the account details of 3.3 million users making its way online. The database was …

Microsoft has acquired Ray Ozzie’s comms startup Talko to improve Skype

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Cloud connected communications startup Talko, Inc. has been acquired by Microsoft Corp. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012 by former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Talko offered an app that combined messaging, calling, and conferencing through the cloud with the …

Pentaho’s Quentin Gallivan predicts Big Data will get to work in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Data blending, the process that delivers a quick and straightforward method to extract value from multiple data sources, has continued to grow this year but what lies for the year ahead? Pentaho Corporation Chief Executive Officer Quentin Gallivan predicts that data blending …

Hillary Clinton calls for a Manhattan Project on encryption, doesn’t understand what a backdoor is

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

In one of the more bizarre examples of tech illiteracy among America’s Presidential wannabees running for a spot in the 2016 Election, Democrat candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton has called for a “Manhattan Project” between Government (see: spying agencies) and …

Linux Foundation announces bitcoin blockchain initiative to develop new fintech applications

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Not-for-profit open-source group The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort that aims to advance the blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin. The project is aiming to develop a new enterprise-grade, open-source distributed ledger framework based on the existing blockchain with …

Vagina articles sell: report claims Mashable is on the market for $300-$350m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Media firm Mashable, Inc. may be on the market with a report Friday that the company is actively shopping itself to potential buyers. According to sources quoted by Ken Doctor at Politico Mashable has employed Deutsche Bank to find a potential suitor …

Zscaler’s Michael Sutton predicts terror attacks on infrastructure and an encryption showdown in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Geopolitical security issues have come to the fore in 2015 as Government’s worldwide have rallied against encryption as the rise of The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and similar Islamic terrorist groups have caused ever growing concern. Terror-driven attacks lead …

Signifyd Cyber Grinch report finds Patagonia dresses, law books top online e-commerce fraud attempts

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

What has the highest ratio of fraud attempts to legitimate purchases online? Surprisingly the answer to that question is “Patagonia cocktail dresses” according to a new report from fraud protection services provider Signifyd, Inc. The report, called the “Cyber Grinch” report in …

BMC’s Bill Platt predicts digital enterprises will take center stage in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

As digital transformation is fast becoming a priority for every company, what changes we will see in the enterprise space in the year ahead? BMC Software, Inc. Senior VP and Chief Architect Bill Platt believes that 2016 will bring a critical stage …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Fascinating AI powered video search startup Valossa raises a $650k seed round

Hello Kitty hacked with the data of 3.3m users making its way online

Microsoft has acquired Ray Ozzie’s comms startup Talko to improve Skype

Pentaho’s Quentin Gallivan predicts Big Data will get to work in 2016

Hillary Clinton calls for a Manhattan Project on encryption, doesn’t understand what a backdoor is

Linux Foundation announces bitcoin blockchain initiative to develop new fintech applications

Zscaler’s Michael Sutton predicts terror attacks on infrastructure and an encryption showdown in 2016

Signifyd Cyber Grinch report finds Patagonia dresses, law books top online e-commerce fraud attempts

BMC’s Bill Platt predicts digital enterprises will take center stage in 2016

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