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Aside from the obvious connection of having “link” in both company names, VigLink founder and CEO Oliver Roup pointed to LinkSmart’s focus on helping online publishers promote content, whether it’s an important article or a sponsored story. That complements VigLink’s technology for automatically inserting affiliate lin...
“We really thought there was a similar vision, and they had great customers [including BuddyTV and Purch] — it just seemed like an exciting opportunity,” Roup said.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but as part of the acquisition, LinkSmart’s backers Foundry Group and Costanoa Venture Capital are becoming VigLink investors. Roup said they added “slightly less than $2 million” to the Series C that he announced over the summer, bringing it to about $20 million tota...
The details of how the two products will be integrated,is still being worked out, and for now, LinkSmart will continue to operate as a standalone service. As for the LinkSmart team, Roup said “a subset” of them will be joining VigLink — and they’ll remain in Boulder.
This is VigLink’s first acquisition since it bought competitor Driving Revenue back in 2010.
“It hasn’t been a major part of our strategy, but where we see a great fit, we’re excited to do it,” Roup said.
But it was February and too early for Ogando or anyone within the organization to fret over it.
It certainly is for Ogando.
Last year he missed three weeks early in the season with right biceps tendinitis, more than a month in the middle with right shoulder inflammation, and another three weeks later with more right shoulder inflammation.
Ogando had been on the DL only once in his first three seasons with the Rangers and is determined to show that last year was a fluke.
Manager Ron Washington has seen Ogando’s edge, too, and said the role has as much to do with it as anything else.
The Rangers have known for a long time the type of talent Ogando possesses.
They acquired him in the minor-league phase of the Rule 5 draft in 2005 with intentions of turning the then-outfielder into a pitcher, and stuck with him through visa issues that kept him out of the United States for four years.
Once cleared of his visa issues, Ogando quickly established himself as a big-league pitcher. But the Rangers had him on an endless shuttle between the bullpen and rotation. He initially proved himself to be a dominant reliever in 2012, posting a 1.30 ERA over 44 appearances.
Then the Rangers moved Ogando into the rotation and he made the American League All-Star team in 2011. However, the team felt he would be more valuable in a relief role down the stretch.
Ogando stayed in the relief role in 2012 with Washington saying that Ogando is a bigger “weapon” out of the bullpen. Last year, he broke camp as a starter and bounced between roles.
The role is no longer in question for a team that is desperate for starters with Derek Holland missing at least the first half of the season, Matt Harrison returning from three surgeries and Colby Lewis trying to make do after a hip operation. Ogando is penciled in as a starter, along with Yu Darvish and Martin Perez.
“Starters have totally different routines from closers,” Washington said. “Now he understands what he has to do daily to make sure that every fifth day he can last. If he can last every fifth day and take the ball and don’t get hurt, he can pile up the innings that it takes to be a starter.
Seeking to capitalize on Millennium Park's soaring popularity, the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday will unveil the final design for its soon-to-be-built new wing, including a superlong footbridge that would shoot like a glistening knife over the park's south end and deposit thousands of parkgoers on the building's ...
The stainless steel span, still in conceptual stages but already endorsed by Mayor Richard Daley, is a dramatic new element of the $258 million expansion, which is expected to open in spring 2009 and will provide a concentrated showcase for the museum's scattered collection of modern and contemporary art.
Known as the north wing, the sparkling temple of steel, glass and limestone will be built at the southwest corner of Monroe and Columbus Drives, on a blighted, sunken site that contains the historic but vacant Goodman Theatre. It will be the Art Institute's largest structure since its familiar Beaux-Arts edifice along ...
"What we really have here is a new museum. It's a museum of 20th Century art. It will look like Chicago has this temple of modern art that the world didn't know we have," said John Bryan, the chairman of the museum's board and its chief fundraiser. He still needs to raise more than $100 million for the project, which w...
Workers will begin erecting construction barriers on Wednesday, and the old Goodman Theatre building will be demolished in the fall, said James Cuno, the museum's president.
Museum officials view the proposed bridge, designed by the expansion's celebrated architect, Renzo Piano of Italy, as a way to lure crowds from neighboring Millennium Park, which will mark its first anniversary on July 16. According to a study done for the City of Chicago, the 24.5-acre park is expected to draw 3 milli...
"The whole impetus to break ground now and to develop this bridge was the palpable success of Millennium Park," Cuno said.
Straight as a knife when seen from above, with an estimated length of 800 to 900 feet, the gently sloping bridge is sure to invite comparisons with Millennium Park's other destination span, the snaking, 960-foot-long BP Bridge by Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry. That bridge is as much a place as a passageway, invitin...
"It's like a lazy river moving around," Piano said by telephone from his office in Genoa, Italy. "In some ways, this is my response to that one."
A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field's highest honor, Piano has a credit list of finished museums that includes the high-tech Pompidou Center in Paris (for which he was co-designer), the serene Menil Collection in Houston and the graceful Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. His recent success at garner...
Yet his bold bridge plan is anything but timid, marking the biggest change in the Art Institute's expansion blueprint, which was first made public in the spring before the Sept. 11 attacks.
The subsequent economic downtown slowed fundraising, forcing the museum to postpone a groundbreaking originally envisioned for early 2003. In addition, the expansion's overall size has shrunk to 264,000 square feet from a planned 290,000.
Still, the north wing will increase the museum's gallery space by roughly one third--adding 65,000 square feet of display space--and the wing retains enough heft to qualify as a stand-alone museum. When completed, it will be more than 100,000 square feet larger than Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. The budget will...
And while other museums have been forced to cancel or suspend ambitious expansions--last week, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. put on hold its plans for a flashy, $110 million Gehry-designed addition--the Art Institute has cobbled together enough support from its inner circle of donors to get the privat...
The museum has gifts and pledges of $170 million for the wing. However, it still must raise another $115 million from foundations, corporations and the public to meet its overall $285 million goal, which includes funds for an endowment and to pay for the bridge. Museum officials estimate that the span will cost either ...
"We'll start at $50 [million]," Cuno joked. "We'll take $75 [million]."
The timing of the museum's fundraising campaign is hardly coincidental. Civic pride should be running high Tuesday night when the billionaire Pritzker family awards this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize at Millennium Park's Gehry-designed Pritzker Pavilion.
The ceremony and the park's approaching first anniversary will enable Bryan, the fundraising wizard behind the $475 million urban pleasure ground, to make the case that Chicagoans should open their wallets to support the city's next grand project--which happens to be right next door.
"It's the most important civic building built in Chicago in the last 100 years," said Bryan, his sales pitch already honed.
Piano's final plan, which will be introduced at a news conference at the museum Tuesday, retains key elements from 2001 as well as significant refinements.
The signature design element remains the architect's "flying carpet" canopy, a sprawling sunshade that will float atop thin steel columns and overhang the building. As fleshed out by Piano, the sunshade will consist of scores of curving aluminum blades that are supposed to screen out direct sunlight and deliver softly ...
The sunshade and an energy-saving, double-layered glass wall facing Millennium Park should contrast sharply with the north wing's massive limestone walls, which evoke the museum's earlier buildings.
All the modern elements will fortify Piano's chief aesthetic theme--a highly transparent, "light" building that seems to defy gravity and opens to nature.
In that spirit, a light-infused, north-south "main street" will take visitors from the new building's Monroe Drive entrance to the Rice Building along Jackson Boulevard, which houses the museum's main temporary exhibition space.
To the east will be a three-story pavilion for galleries and museum education. To the west will be another three-story pavilion, its rooftop lined with a sculpture garden, winter garden and glassed-in dining facility with skyline and lake views.
The bridge leading to these attractions, which departs from Piano's earlier plan for a much shorter span, would begin deep in the park, a full city block north of Monroe.
Siphoning crowds from the nearby Cloud Gate sculpture and the Pritzker Pavilion, the narrow span would rise above what is now a fenced-in service yard for the park's Lurie Garden before crossing Monroe, more than 20 feet above the street.
Its gradual slope would permit people in wheelchairs to use it. Glass walls would emphasize the bridge's lightness and transparency, a feature not likely to be lost on lakefront advocates who want open views of Lake Michigan. The bridge's path already has been adjusted to mollify Millennium Park officials.
Millennium Park project design director Ed Uhlir said the Art Institute and Piano heeded his request to move the bridge slightly to the west so it would not disturb the western edge of the Lurie Garden.
"I support the idea for the bridge," Uhlir said.
Once people cross Monroe and reach the museum's rooftop's attractions, they could take an escalator or elevator to the north wing's first floor, where they could buy a ticket to enter the museum, head back to the park or go elsewhere.
"If there are 3 million people a year [in Millennium Park]," Cuno said, "let's say 20 percent of them cross that bridge. That's 600,000 people coming over to the Art Institute side. If half of them descend and go into the museum, that's 300,000 people."
When the north wing opens, he expects museum attendance, now about 1.3 million annually, to jump to 1.8 million or more.
Museum officials have not yet shown the bridge proposal to advocacy groups such as Friends of the Parks. In a news release issued by the museum, Daley praised the design as a "21st Century connection between the Art Institute and the city."
A spokeswoman for the city's Department of Planning and Development said the bridge will need an amendment to the planned development legislation for the expansion that the City Council approved. That would require assent from the city's Plan Commission and the council, as well as public hearings.
STOCKS rebounded as investors shrugged off a weaker-than-expected manufacturing report and took their chances on cut-price shares.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 77.73, or 1%, at 8069.86, having suffered a four-day loss of 288.10 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq collected 7.13, or 0.5%, to 1348.30.
Pundits reckon the advance was more a bounce from sharp declines of recent sessions, rather than a signal that investors' confidence in the economy or stocks has improved. The market is also on edge about first-quarter reports due later this month.
Still, the market overcame disappointing news from the Institute for Supply Management, which reported that factories business decreased last month for the first time in five months. It blamed the war for a plunge in new orders to manufacturers.
Analysts expect develoments in Iraq will drive markets, as investors have already come to expect disappointing news about the economy. 'The next move is to the upside when we see conclusive evidence of victory, but when that happens, no one knows,' said Brian Belski, strategist at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray.
SBC Communications rose $1.32 to $21.38 after Legg Mason raised its recommendation on the stock to 'buy' from 'hold.' American Airlines parent AMR advanced 90 cents to $3 on upgrades from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
On Monday, 600-plus people marched to Wal-Mart's vast distribution warehouse in Elwood, Ill., to show support for 30 non-union workers who have been on strike since mid-September. Riot police were called in and arrested 17 people as a group of marchers sat down to block the road to the warehouse. However, in successful...
At the rally—surely the largest in Elwood history—workers told of backbreaking work for little pay, temperatures that oscillate between sweltering heat and bitter cold, management retaliation, and gender discrimination.
Yolanda Dickerson, who had worked in a warehouse for two years, says she “was sexually harassed on a regular basis,” recounting an incident of being locked in a trailer by male co-workers. After Dickerson reported the incident, she says management did nothing. WWJ [Warehouse Workers for Justice] says such reports are c...
Uetricht noted that, according to WWJ, "brutal working conditions, wage theft, and management retaliation against organizing workers are rampant—and the big-box companies like Walmart who are supplied by these warehouses use the complicated layers of subcontracting to avoid responsibility for working conditions."
For labor commentators, two strikes in such swift succession suggests a renewed willingness to stand up to Wal-Mart, a company known for its aversion to unions. On the heels of the Chicago teachers' strike, labor organizing looks to be on the up.
Chennai: Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt. Ltd has signed a three-year agreement with its employees’ union, Renault Nissan India Thozhilalar Sangam, in Chennai on Wednesday.
The agreement will be effective for three years until 31 March 2019, a statement from the automobile manufacturer said. According to the agreement, technicians at the facility in Chennai will receive a “salary increase of ₹ 18,000 progressively over the next three years."
“The wage agreement with the employee union goes a long way in building a sustainable and performing organization. We have carefully ensured that the employees and families receive best benefits and schemes," said Colin MacDonald, chief executive and managing director of Renault Nissan Automotive India.
This is the first wage settlement by Renault Nissan alliance since the Chennai operations began in 2010 and after setting up their registered employee union in December 2015.
The Chennai manufacturing unit of the Renault and Nissan alliance started operation in March 2010 and the alliance has so far invested ₹ 6,100 crore. The facility caters to both domestic and international markets and has developed into India’s second largest car exporter with more than 600,000 units shipped to 106 coun...
Renault Kwid, which was developed in the company’s Chennai R&D centre, has localization levels of over 98%.
The Chennai facility makes 1,000 cars a day in two shifts. A third shift is expected to increase the per day output to 1,600 units. Currently, 80% of the production capacity at the Oragadam unit is used for Renault products, the rest is used by Nissan.
The Renault-Nissan alliance has introduced 32 new Renault, Nissan and Datsun models and derivatives to its production line, for the domestic market as well as export.
The country’s largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, reached a wage settlement with workers of its Gurgaon and Manesar facilities in September last year, under which employees will get an average salary hike of around ₹ 16,800 per month spread over three years.
Earlier this year in February, Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) in Chennai finalised a wage agreement with the United Union of Hyundai Employees and the technicians would receive an average salary increase of ₹ 19,000 per month, spread over three years.
Although temporary worker firings in July drove up the number of unemployed by a net 175,000 for the month, the number of job openings actually rose by 178,000 as well, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This isn't a huge jump, but it's certainly better than the two months of decline in openings during May an...
The ratio fell to 4.80 in July, down from 5.11 in June.
As noted before, these chart shows pretty clearly that there are far more unemployed Americans than job openings at this time. So it's pretty hard to blame the current labor market problems entirely on a lack of trying to get a job on the part of the unemployed.
Who were the standout performers for Marco Silva's men in the Stamford Bridge stalemate?
Everton gained a creditable point as they held unbeaten Chelsea to a goalless draw in London.
Here, Chris Beesley gives his verdict on how Marco Silva's men performed.
The hero of the hour with a string of important stops. In the first half he turned a stinging Marcos Alonso effort over the bar while just after the restart he had to get down well to his right to keep out Alvaro Morata.
Was up against it from the start against Eden Hazard but why he was able to generally keep a lid on Chelsea’s in-form star man in the first half, the openings became worryingly more regular after the break.
A threat throughout with his set-piece deliveries, he was also kept busy in defence where he made several crucial interceptions and blocks.
Settled down after a nervy start that saw him kick a couple of seemingly straightforward passes directed towards Seamus Coleman into touch. Was imperious in the air like he has been all season and played his part in a determined rearguard action.
Faced a tumultuous first test in the Premier League and although there were several testing moments - notably his booking for catching Hazard and a deflection from a shot by the Belgian that almost looped past his own keeper - he came through generally unscathed.
Many consider the Senegalese international to be the closest thing to N’Golo Kante in the Premier League and coming up against the real thing, he showed that while he might not be quite in the same class, he’s certainly no second-rate imitation. Fought and harried throughout to produce an impressive screening job.
Having brought a touch of class to Everton’s midfield, the on-loan Barcelona man has become an instant hit with Blues fans but he found the spaces to work in on this occasion, few and far between and the travelling support would have liked to have seen him use his substantial frame to more effect at times.
Some probing passes and hard running kept Chelsea on their toes - especially in the first half - and his threat could only be blunted by a crude challenge from Jorginho that saw the Chelsea man booked. Was sacrificed for the last 15 minutes as Marco Silva attempted to stem the tide with the introduction of Phil Jagielk...
Having been brighter against Brighton last week, Evertonians were expecting more of a shift from the Arsenal old boy away from home after his quiet showing at Old Trafford.
Walcott worked hard but again he and Coleman came up against a tricky opponent down their flank in the shape of Hazard and the one big opportunity that came his way - courtesy of a searching cross-field pass from Sigurdsson - was spurned by a poor first touch.
Strange old game for him. Almost scored his first Everton goal with a sweet half volley early on, became embroiled in an altercation Antonio Rudiger in first half stoppage time that saw both men booked and then seemed to trip over his own feet to spurn a golden opportunity when finding himself in acres of space in the ...
Battled hard to make sure he was fit to play at a ground that had been the site of one of the low points of his debut season in the Premier League at Watford when he missed a couple of open goals.
There were no such clearcut opportunities on this occasion but he battled hard with minimal service and coped well, as has become the norm, against physical intimidation.
Looked a real livewire coming on down the left flank in the final quarter of the match and almost created a breakthrough with a mazy dribble.
Introduced as a third centre-back for the final 15 minutes with Everton under the cosh and playing for the first time since the opening day of the season at Wolves he steadied the ship.
Ran the channels late on.
Child-care vote comes as union power declines in most states.
The DFL Legislature eked out a major victory for organized labor Monday, giving in-home child-care providers and personal care attendants the right to unionize at a time when union power is in full retreat in many state capitols.
The Minnesota House, acting as the last hours of the Legislative session were ticking down, approved the unionization measure by a bare 68-66 majority and sent it to DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, who is expected to sign it.
Announcement of the vote produced a burst of cheers from purple-and green-shirted union supporters in the House gallery, followed by angry denunciations of the breach of House decorum. "We're not in charge — let them applaud," said Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, as he stalked out of the chamber. "They own the place!"