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

Report claims Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Wright

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Who is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto? That question has perplexed many since Bitcoin went live for the first time in 2009 but now we potentially have an answer to that question…perhaps. Wired is claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually 44-year-old Australian academic …

IBM snaps up cloud based video content management service provider Clearleap

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has acquired cloud based video content management service provider Clearleap, Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2007, Clearleap offers a platform that provides customers with multi-screen video processing and video asset management, along with an open …

Singapore-based Bitcoin startup BitX raises new round of funding from Venturra Capital

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin startup BitX has raised an undisclosed new round of funding from South East Asia investment fund Venturra Capital. “It’s a substantial amount and what we believe to be the first substantial investment from a Southeast Asian VC into a Bitcoin company,” …

Enterprise security firm Blue Coat in talks for possible IPO in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Enterprise security firm Blue Coat Systems, Inc. may be returning to public equity markets in 2016 with a report that the company is considering an Initial Public Offering (IPO). According to Bloomberg Business, the company, acquired by Bain Capital for $2.4 billion …

JAMF’s Dean Hager predicts declining Microsoft enterprise desktop market share, Apple Watch success in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

As competition for hiring top talent continues to heat up as the great tech bubble continues to go on its merry way, will Microsoft continue its dominance in the enterprise desktop market as new hires demand access to Apple machines instead? The …

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io raises $1m seed round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin to Amazon person-to-person (P2P) service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has raised $1 million in a seed round from Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2014, Purse.io offers a service that acquires unwanted Amazon gift cards and certificates and then sells them to …

Secret Service agent gets 71 months for stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road investigation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been jailed for 71 months after being found guilty of stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation into the now defunct Darknet marketplace Silk Road. Agent Shaun W. Bridges, who had previously spent time as a …

SEC filing confirms Airbnb raised $1.5b in new funding on $25.5b valuation

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Online accommodation marketplace Airbnb, Inc. has confirmed that it raised $1.5 billion in private equity funding earlier this year via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The Wall Street Journal first broke the news of the round back in late …

Blue Coat’s Hugh Thompson predicts an increase in cloud security breaches in 2016

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

2015 has been a horror year on the security front, with a long list of high-profile corporations and even the Internal Revenue Service finding themselves at the mercy of a variety of bad actors. The question for the year ahead is will …

Bitcoin stolen via malware-infected pirated copy of Fallout 4

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Various industry bodies over the years have tried all sorts of scare tactics in relation to piracy, up to and including taking people to court, but what if your pirated item ended up stealing Bitcoin? That’s exactly what happened to one Reddit …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report claims Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Wright

IBM snaps up cloud based video content management service provider Clearleap

Singapore-based Bitcoin startup BitX raises new round of funding from Venturra Capital

Enterprise security firm Blue Coat in talks for possible IPO in 2016

JAMF’s Dean Hager predicts declining Microsoft enterprise desktop market share, Apple Watch success in 2016

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io raises $1m seed round

Secret Service agent gets 71 months for stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road investigation

SEC filing confirms Airbnb raised $1.5b in new funding on $25.5b valuation

Blue Coat’s Hugh Thompson predicts an increase in cloud security breaches in 2016

Bitcoin stolen via malware-infected pirated copy of Fallout 4

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