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

Social justice warrior forces Google to drop .bro extension in Brotli due to it being misogynistic

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

When does the file extension .bro come with sexist, evil, female-hating misogynistic overtones? Apparently it does when you live in the social justice-obsessed world of Silicon Valley with Google being forced to replace the extension in its new Brotli file compression software. …

Purse.io denies Bitcoin theft despite compromise and multiple users saying they’ve been robbed

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has denied that a compromise over the weekend resulted in the theft of Bitcoin despite multiple users claiming to have had Bitcoin stolen from their accounts. Details of the theft first emerged on …

Apple kowtows to PRC Government by blocking its news app in China

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Kowtowing once again to the Government of the People’s Republic of China, tech giant Apple is reported to be blocking its news app in the Middle Kingdom. The New York Times reports that while the app is only currently available to download …

Etsy killer? Amazon launches a marketplace for handmade goods

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc. has entered the hand-crafted goods market with the launch of a new service Thursday. Called Handmade at Amazon, the service launched with a lineup of over 80,000 items from about 5,000 sellers in 60 countries. Listings in the service are …

Apple admits that iPhone 6s battery life differs between who made the A9 chip, but not by much

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple has surprisingly confirmed reports that the battery life on its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus varies depending on the manufacturer of the A9 chip that runs the phone, but claims that the variance is only very slight. Dubbed “batterygate” by …

No surprise as Facebook doesn’t do a dislike button but an emoji based reactions option instead

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Despite the fact most of the media predicted that Facebook, Inc. was planning to launch a dislike button, the social networking goliath has instead started testing “Reactions,” an extension of the Facebook like button that allows (as the name may suggest) users …

Winklevoss twins talk about their new Gemini Bitcoin exchange in a Reddit AMA

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have celebrated the launch of their new Bitcoin exchange Gemini Trust Company LLC. this week by taking to Reddit to do an AMA (ask me anything). Despite the way they were perhaps portrayed in the movie The …

Amazon holding talks to deliver a new live TV streaming service

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com, Inc. may be looking to enter the live streaming television space with the company said to have been in talks to do exactly that. Dan Rayburn broke the news, writing on his Streaming Media blog that multiple content owners have told …

Big data takeover: Dell said to be in talks with EMC for possible part or full acquisition

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Computer maker Dell, Inc. may be about to expand its horizons with a report Wednesday that it was in talks to acquire part or all of rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. The Wall Street Journal quotes the proverbial “people familiar with …

Snowball’s chance in hell? Amazon just launched a physical data transfer service | #reinvent

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Not without a sense of naming humor Amazon.com, Inc. has introduced something completely unexpected: a physical data transfer service. Called Snowball (as in a snowball’s chance in hell), the new service facilitates the transfer of data to the cloud through an appliance …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Purse.io denies Bitcoin theft despite compromise and multiple users saying they’ve been robbed

Apple kowtows to PRC Government by blocking its news app in China

Etsy killer? Amazon launches a marketplace for handmade goods

Apple admits that iPhone 6s battery life differs between who made the A9 chip, but not by much

No surprise as Facebook doesn’t do a dislike button but an emoji based reactions option instead

Winklevoss twins talk about their new Gemini Bitcoin exchange in a Reddit AMA

Amazon holding talks to deliver a new live TV streaming service

Big data takeover: Dell said to be in talks with EMC for possible part or full acquisition

Snowball’s chance in hell? Amazon just launched a physical data transfer service | #reinvent

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