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

Australian fintech app maker Invoice2go raises $15m Series C

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Fintech invoicing app maker Invoice2go, Inc. has raised $15 million Series C in a round led by Ribbit Capital that included existing investor Accel Partners. Founded in Australia in 2002 (but now with a main office in Redwood City, CA) Invoice2go offers …

Intel Capital invests $22m into 10 startups covering comms, IoT, power storage and more

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Intel’s venture capital arm Intel Capital has announced it has invested $22 million into 10 startups as part of its push to invest more than $500 million in technology companies this year. The list of companies, announced at the Intel Capital Global …

Twitter dumps favorites for hearts/likes in another desperate ploy to gain new users

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Twitter, Inc. announced another desperate ploy to make their service more appealing Tuesday by replacing the ability to favorite a tweet with an option to like a tweet (“heart it”) instead. The company justified the decision in a blog post, with Product …

Disruptive lawyer-matching startup Lexoo raises $1.3m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Lawyer-matching startup Lexoo Ltd. has raised $1.3 million in a round led by Forward Partners and individual investors Jonathan McKay (chairman of Just Giving), Duncan Jennings (founder of Vouchercodes), Tim Jackson (Lean Investments), Robin Grant (founder of We Are Social) and the …

Smart Singapore fintech app maker Call Levels raises $500k from 500 Startups

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Singapore-based fintech app maker Call Levels Pte. Ltd. has raised pre-series A of $500,000 in a round led by 500 Startups that included financial market veterans Timothy Teo (ex-GIC and JP Morgan), Gracelyn Ho (ex-Morgan Stanley) and Koh Boon Hwee. Founded in …

Doth protest too much: Google officially denies ChromeOS/ Android merger

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Google has gone public to deny a report from last week that it is currently working on merging its ChromeOS operating system into Android. The original report claimed that ChromeOS will be folded into Android as the latter has become by far …

Activision Blizzard has acquired Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital for a cool $5.9b

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Mega games company Activision Blizzard, Inc. has acquired Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital Entertainment PLC for a cool $5.9 billion. According to The Financial Times, the acquisition is the biggest takeover of a UK-based tech company since HP acquired Autonomy for …

Warning: Miners Center Bitcoin to fiat currency premium payment service is a scam

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

If an offer is too good to be true it usually is, and in the case of a new Bitcoin offering it screams scam from the rooftops. Called Miners Center, the site offers to buy Bitcoin at a 10 percent premium as …

Cyber Threat Alliance report finds Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware has raked in $325m

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A new report has found that Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware operators have raked in around $325 million in ransom income for the malware developers since version 3.0 was first detected in the wild in January this year. The report comes from the Cyber …

Poor taste? New Oculus Rift VR game recreates 9/11 from the North Tower of the WTC

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

A new game for the as-yet-to-be-released to the public Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is causing controversy, as it recreates the dark day that was 9/11 from a victim’s viewpoint. Titled 8:46 after the time American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Australian fintech app maker Invoice2go raises $15m Series C

Intel Capital invests $22m into 10 startups covering comms, IoT, power storage and more

Twitter dumps favorites for hearts/likes in another desperate ploy to gain new users

Disruptive lawyer-matching startup Lexoo raises $1.3m

Smart Singapore fintech app maker Call Levels raises $500k from 500 Startups

Doth protest too much: Google officially denies ChromeOS/ Android merger

Warning: Miners Center Bitcoin to fiat currency premium payment service is a scam

Cyber Threat Alliance report finds Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware has raked in $325m

Poor taste? New Oculus Rift VR game recreates 9/11 from the North Tower of the WTC

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