Three Ships

Three Ships | April 13, 2020

As the CEO of Three Ships, a digital media company that operates a network of rating and reviews websites, my team has access to real-time data on how consumers have responded to North Carolina’s “stay at home” order. The impact is severe. Searches for Raleigh restaurants have all but fallen to zero. Searches for Crabtree Valley Mall are down 57%. Searches in Raleigh-Durham for “dry cleaning” are down 71%, “hair salon” ar...

Three Ships | February 07, 2017

Triangle Tweeners are companies based out of the Triangle with at least $1M in sales or 10 people. They generally are technology companies (mostly around software) and are independent and not public. Clinverse, a healthtech software company for automatic payments, was acquired in January 2016 by Bioclinica for $123 million. WebAssign was acquired by Cengage, with terms not disclosed. Impulsonic was acquired before it could officially make the list. The acquisition by Valve happene...

Google | January 13, 2020

Google is finally ready to give Android users in EU the choice of alternative search engines but surprisingly it’s DuckDuckGo that has been regarded as the most preferred choice whereas Bing stood at last. From 1st March 2020, European Union citizens will get the advantage to choose one out of four search engines as their default (including Google). By doing so, they will not only see their selected choice for making searches in Chrome, but also through Android home screen search box and a...

Facebook | January 13, 2020

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its release in December 2018, FAIR called the fastest open source speech recognition system available. Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is used to turn ...