Today's number: 200,000

Digital songs that Apple Computer Co. is selling through its iTunes Music Store for 99 cents each to users of Apple's Macintosh PCs and iPods.

The Associated Press

Today's money tip

Money markets work well for short-term savings, about 18 to 24 months. They offer complete liquidity at any time and keep a steady value of $1 a share. But with interest rates at 40 year lows, the money kept there hardly grows and even is at risk of not keeping up with inflation. Look into short-term bond funds if you want to trade a little liquidity for slightly better returns.

Amy Higgins

Today's career talk

Companies that have an idealistic bent are also challenged by other factors, Sandra Fekete and LeeAnna Keith say in their book Companies are People, Too. "This type of organization radiates enthusiasm for its work," the authors say. "If they can overcome a tendency toward disorganization and poor follow-through, organizations with these characteristics have the capacity to produce cutting-edge work, imaginative products and innovative services."

John Eckberg

Today's mover

Bridgett Fitzgerald has joined Paul Hemmer Companies as a leasing representative in the real estate and development division. Fitzgerald will be responsible for working with existing tenants and securing new leases for medical, office and retail space. She was with Paul Berger & Associates, an architectural firm in Chicago. She is a graduate of Providence College in Providence, R.I.

Shirley Dees

Today's Company: Professional Image

Selling Identity: From a beginning in uniform sales, Rick and Charles Pescovitz decided that they wanted more control over their customer relationships, and opened their own uniform sales company in 1989. From there, Professional Image moved into corporate apparel and - by customer request - into corporate logo promotional items.

Less Uniform; More Diverse: About half of Professional Image's current sales are in embroidered or screen-printed corporate casual wear and the other half in logo-bearing mugs, pens and similar products. Sales have grown an average of 20 to 30 percent annually and the company now employs 15 people.

Shaping Sales: The Blue Ash company has also custom-printed T-shirts which can then be compressed into a variety of shapes. It helped promote the Firstar-U.S. Bank merger with shirts in shrink-wrapped maps in the shape of the U.S. Shirts in doughnut-shaped packages were used by South-Western to advertise a new product.

Windows On The Web: Professional Image maintains "Internet stores" that sell client companies' promotional merchandise.

Jenny Callison