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Nielsen completes acquisition of Shadyside software firm February 25, 2017 12:00 AM Screen grab of Rhiza Inc. homepage By Stephanie Ritenbaugh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Another big name is claiming a stake in Pittsburgh’s tech sector. Global data firm Nielsen Holdings is acquiring Rhiza Inc., a Shadyside-based company that provides media and consumer analytics software. Nielsen

With a simple layout and the Amazon Alexa skill functionality, it has become easier for women to stay up to date with their menstrual cycles, calculate their most fertile dates and ovulation as well as helping them to remember doctor’s appointments. Period Track, a global mobile software company working to deliver the next generation intimate

2/24/172/24/17 Whether you bought one for yourself or got one as a gift, you can’t deny the Amazon Echo is pretty awesome. Sure, it takes time to get used saying “Alexa,” but you get over that pretty quickly. If you want to learn a few more tips to get the most out of your Echo,

Alexa just got smarter. Amazon’s now popular voice assistant is being rivalled by other companies and services. There’s the Google Assistant as its closest competitor. We know Alexa is already integrated with a number of products and we can expect more to be supported. With the help of numerous developers, Alexa has now reached more

[embedded content] Last week’s New York Toy Fair introduced a number of new toys to consumers. One of the biggest hits: Toys that play with light. The Hello Barbie Hologram was perhaps the most visible of the bunch. Think of this virtual doll as a peppier version of Amazon’s Alexa. It is capable of following

The always-on nature of connected devices in homes now means that police involved in murder investigations are turning to them with a question: Who dunnit? That’s what’s happening in the case of an Amazon Echo in Bentonville, Arkansas, that sat on James Bates’ kitchen counter in late 2015 when a neighbor turned up dead in