Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc., the second-largest seller of online advertising in the U.S., added a program to help employers target and attract specific types of job recruits. The features will turn listings on Yahoo's HotJobs Web site into display ads that appear on the company's other pages such as Yahoo Finance. The ads will target specific job seekers based on the information they provide and online behaviors, Yahoo said in a statement.

Biotech

Shares of Emeryville-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals added the most since May 12, climbing 3.9 percent to $34.98 in morning trading. The drugmaker may rise as high as $70 a share next year on sales of Nexavar, the liver-and kidney- cancer drug it developed with Bayer AG, Barron's said, citing a hedge-fund manager.

Redwood City-based Genelabs Technologies said that based on progress to date, its hepatitis C drug development and commercialization collaboration with Novartis is continuing to the next phase. The research phase of the collaboration was completed on June 2. Genelabs and Novartis will continue to hold joint research committee meetings to monitor the progress of compounds discovered during this phase as they advance.

Banking

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage of San Francisco said Monday that it is one of the first mortgage lenders in California to market a new construction

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solar home program. Wells Fargo will let home builders pass the state's solar rebate directly to buyers at loan closing to use with their down payment or as a permanent interest-rate buy down to lower monthly payments. In the past, builders would simply reduce the price of a house by the amount of the state rebate offered by the California Energy Commission's New Solar Home Partnership and other utility solar rebate programs.

Quickly

Modesto-based grocery chain Save Mart Supermarkets has signed a multiyear agreement to continue as co-title sponsor of the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, track officials announced Monday.

Compiled from staff and wire reports. Got Bay Area business news? Reach Drew Voros at 925-943-8099 or dvoros@bayareanewsgroup.com.