PartnerWeekly, a SellingSource.com company specializing in performance-based marketing, announced today that it has achieved a milestone in its strategy to diversify the base of sub-prime, consumer-targeted financial services offers available to publishers in the Company's worldwide online affiliate network. The Company has launched multiple offers in several new verticals, including auto finance, credit and prepaid cards, mortgage, student loan, and debt and credit repair.

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OrthoLogic narrows losses as it works to commercialize medical treatments

OrthoLogic Corp., a Tempe biotechnology company still looking to move out of the development stage, narrowed its losses for the quarter ended June 30.

OrthoLogic (NASDAQ:OLGC - News) reported a net loss of $2.3 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with $6.5 million, or 16 cents a share, for the same period a year ago. For the first six months of 2007, the company lost $5.3 million, or 13 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $23 million, or 58 cents, in 2006.

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Lodi High lockers in dilapidated condition

Lodi High School sophomore Melanie Manguso, 15, sifts through the books in her locker between classes Thursday morning.Several copies of the same massive biology book face Manguso as she shuffles books and binders between her locker and her backpack.Although she shares her locker — which is half the size of a full-length locker — with seven other people, she said she's lucky that she has one at all.Lodi High's campus has 700 lockers for its more than 2,000 students. However, as of Thursday afternoon, only 300 of those lockers were functional, according to Jennifer Tillett, English teacher and speech and debate club adviser at Lodi High.Tillett, whose debate team manages the lockers for the school, said the remaining 400 lockers have to be repaired before they can be rented out to students.At the beginning of the school year, Tillett said, the students can rent out a locker for the year for $20.

Developing Stories: Rent & Roll

Like many another American traveler in Europe, I found fresh cross-cultural inspiration this summer visiting older, denser, more transit-rich and cosmopolitan cities. Viewed through the "Developing Stories" prism, every city and neighborhood offered a thought-provoking contrast with Austin. In England and France, public transportation of every mode was packed, cars were tiny and apartments barely larger, and action on global warming was widely discussed. Want to reduce downtown traffic? In London, that public policy has sharp teeth: Driving a car into the central city zone (expanded this year) incurs a "congestion charge" of 8 pounds (about $16) per day -- a tool to reduce congestion, cut carbon dioxide and polluting emissions, and fund investment in public transport.

One Austin-worthy discovery was the Cyclocity program in Lyon, France -- now expanded to Paris and under consideration in numerous European and Australian cities.

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Commodity prices firmed as credit jitters eased a little, with oil prices rallying after a 5.5 percent slide last week and copper prices also up.

The Fed also said it would provide cash as needed to ensure markets functioned smoothly in a rare comment last seen during the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.

Metro Detroit Companies Named 'Best & Brightest Companies to Work For' by the Michigan Business and Professional ...

The economy in metro Detroit may be challenging, but it doesn't mean that local companies are not working hard to keep one of their greatest assets -- their employees. Companies committed to exceptional business practices will be honored as "Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" by the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA) on Thurs., Oct. 4, at the Conference and Events Center in Dearborn, Mich.

The 8th annual symposium and awards gala emphasizing human resources will be emceed by Murray Feldman of FOX 2 News and Amyre Makupson, former news anchor for UPN50 Ten O'Clock News and 62/CBS Eyewitness News.

The MBPA received hundreds of nominations from companies across southeastern Michigan hoping to be named one of "Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For." The companies selected have proved to be innovative and represent outstanding practices in industries as diverse as manufacturing, insurance, health care, communications and nonprofit.

Renovators Help Iranian American Stay Active Despite Disability

Sometimes it is the small things in life that count, especially for someone with a disability.

Although several of the renovations took a month or more to complete, much of the work was done in a single day when a swarm of some 30 volunteers descended on the Fouladi home in Maryland from two organizations – the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), which has more than 35 million members nationwide, and the local community organization Rebuilding Together, which focuses on home rehabilitation for low-income and disabled families.

Europe Recruitment Up For 6th Straight Month In July -Monster

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Employment prospects in Europe rose for the sixth month in a row in July, with Germany and France leading the way, according to the latest monthly survey by online recruiter Monster Worldwide (MNST), which was released Tuesday. Monster said its employment index, the base line of which is 100, rose to 148 last month from 145 in June, and was up 23 points from the corresponding month a year earlier. The survey found that the sectors with the most recruitment across European countries were manufacturing, maintenance and repair and telecommunications. The strong showing for Monster's index underscores the better jobs market in Europe so far this year, a result of improved economic growth. "We've now seen a full six months of growth across Europe, with the Index displaying a sharp upward trend between January and May and then slightly slower growth in the run-up to the summer," said Alan Townsend, chief operating officer for Monster U.K.