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

IBM acquires Merge Healthcare for $1b to allow Watson to “see”

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has acquired enterprise image sharing applications provider Merge Healthcare, Inc. for $1 billion. Founded in 1987 and publicly listed since 1998, Merge provides solutions to improve the healthcare experience for patients, providers and payers, ranging from Integrated …

Fanboys try to spin Apple Music as a serious Spotify challenger as service hits 11m free trial signups

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Proving the concept that free trials work, Apple, Inc. has revealed Thursday that it has signed up 11 million people to its Apple Music music streaming service. The service, which launched June 30, opened to the public with an initial 3 month …

Reddit purges racist subreddits as it releases new content policy

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Social news sharing website Reddit has finally cracked down on blatantly racist content following the release of a new content policy Wednesday. The new policy, detailed by Chief Executive Officer Steve Huffman in a post to Reddit, is claimed to be a …

Content delivery network firm Fastly raises $75m Series D

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Content delivery network (CDN) firm Fastly, Inc. has raised $75 million Series D in a round led by Iconiq Capital that included existing investors Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Founded in 2011, Fastly bills itself …

Class-action status application by user who upgraded to Android in Apple iMessage lawsuit dismissed

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook may not yet have been given deity status by the throngs of Apple fanboys, as the late Steve Jobs once had, but that doesn’t mean the company still can’t occasionally walk on water, with news …

Circlejerk Google takeover stories miss one thing: why would anyone want to buy Twitter today?

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Circlejerk: a pejorative slang term referring to a positive feedback loop which occurs when an idea, belief or meme that is already customary within an online community becomes re-iterated and rewarded in a perpetual cycle. Know Your Meme It’s a matter of …

Apple denies planning an MVNO as stock takes a battering on report

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Apple, Inc. broke its usual policy of remaining silent on rumors and speculation Tuesday by coming out publicly and flat out denying that it was planning a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service. “We have not discussed nor do we have any …

Hackers utilize Yahoo ads to deliver malware to millions of users

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

Yahoo, Inc.’s advertising network has been found to be unknowingly serving malicious code that may have seen millions of visitors to Yahoo properties hacked. The attack, which is reported to have started on July 28, saw malware that exploited Flash vulnerabilities delivered …

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 pics show no more removable battery or microSD card slot

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

An alleged photo leak of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5 not only confirms previous leaks about the device, it confirms many a Samsung fans’ worst nightmare: no removable battery and no microSD card slot. The pictures, provided to Android …

History repeats: Uber and the second great tech bubble

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY11 YEARS AGO

We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

IBM acquires Merge Healthcare for $1b to allow Watson to “see”

Fanboys try to spin Apple Music as a serious Spotify challenger as service hits 11m free trial signups

Content delivery network firm Fastly raises $75m Series D

Class-action status application by user who upgraded to Android in Apple iMessage lawsuit dismissed

Circlejerk Google takeover stories miss one thing: why would anyone want to buy Twitter today?

Apple denies planning an MVNO as stock takes a battering on report

Hackers utilize Yahoo ads to deliver malware to millions of users

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 pics show no more removable battery or microSD card slot

History repeats: Uber and the second great tech bubble

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