Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

Latest from Maria Deutscher

New Loopt Update Brings Significant Facebook Places Integration

Loopt’s latest version that has been released today for the iPhone introduces users the freshly integrated and growingly popular Facebook Places tool. Soon to arrive to Android as well, this update marks more than another handy addition for users. This is a major step for Facebook’s social networking too, and a very good indicator of ...

Baidu and Rakuten: Search Engine Plus Internet Company Equals e-Commerce Pushover

Chinese search engine leader Baidu had teamed up with successful Japanese internet company Rakuten to launch a new and promising online mall for the country, as reported here. The venture was officially announced by the two in January. The mall is yet another step towards the sizable shrinkage of the global e-Commerce market, which is ...

Netflix Optimistic for 3rd Quarter, Discless on Wii & PS3

Netflix is doing fairly well. Its inventors have seen a somewhat record-breaking gain of no less than 572% as of October 15, but it did have a weak last quarter, as the $8.03 billion dollars and 18 million customers worth video giant slipped 11.9 % last July. Nonetheless, despite some very pessimistic predictions by Janney ...

RIM Expands OS6 with BB Style, Hopes for UAE

RIM has been working on significantly expanding its reachable market and customer-base for quite some time now, and after putting a whole lot of cards on the table, the company is now beginning to push forward on all fronts. The first star of this campaign is none other than the newly launched BB Style for ...

Google Launches In-Page Analytics. More Detail, Up Close.

Google announced today in its Analytics blog the launch of the new In-Page Analytics beta, enabling site owners to overlay the service on their web pages and evaluate traffic data more capably. “To make this visualization easier, some users keep the website open in another browser tab so they can reference it while looking through ...

In-App Purchases Doing Better than Mobile Ads for iOS

The dawn of the Smartphone era has given marketers a huge opportunity for mass profit generation, predictably via advertisement revenue. Contrary to this however, Flurry has uncovered that despite of  mobile ad revenue’s prospected potential, virtual goods revenue had overwhelmingly surpassed it on the iOS arena, at an exponentially growing rate.  This is based on ...

Over 10 Million Users of Google Apps Education, Will Only Grow with Android

This month, 4 year-old Google Apps for Education marks a milestone in Google’s growth throughout the education, cloud-computing arena. Universities, colleges and alumni, as well as a great number of other educational establishments, now make up a list counting over 10 million people using the tools, further anchoring Google in this sector, and setting it ...

Juniper Networks Launches New and Powerful Content Streaming App

In light of the mobile boom and tablet and PC video streaming, Juniper Networks has just announced the launch of new Media Flow Controller application Media Flow Publisher, which enables content providers ranging from IPTV to cable companies, streams smooth HQ video across a wide range of devices using numerous formats, streaming protocols and more. ...

IBM Acquires Software Company PSS Systems

IBM today announced its acquisition of the privately held PSS Systems, a company which develops software to help enterprises and organizations to analyze, mechanize and implement data management policies on vast amounts of crucial business information, as well as dispose of information responsibly in a secure and simplified, cost-efficient way. With a current and ongoing ...

Amazon’s Hard Push for Kindle, Pre-Installs on Verizon’s Androids

Android has cut a fresh deal with Verizon, the ever-popular wireless voice and 3G data network provider serving over 90 million customers, to get the Kindle e-reader preinstalled “…on many Android devices…” running on their wireless network. With 92 million people signed-up with Verizon, this is one chunk of the market that practically guarantees to ...