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...term has morphed to describe an unscrupulous business practice: rummaging through a competitor's trash for inside information. It's a low-tech form of corporate espionage that has increased since 1988, when the Supreme Court ruled that once it leaves private property, trash is fair game. Last year Procter & Gamble, whose products include Pantene and Head & Shoulders shampoos, admitted Dumpster diving for information about Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, makers of Finesse and Helene Curtis. Dumpster diving is also practiced by identity thieves, who seek credit-card information. Fear of Dumpster diving has helped fuel the growing popularity of shredders...
...corporations such as Gillette, Procter & Gamble and the automakers get petulant about the muscular dollar because it makes American products more expensive around the world...
...BRUSH WITH THE LAW A young woman from Greensburg, Pa., brushed her teeth for two weeks with Crest Baking Soda toothpaste. She claims it misaligned and scarred her teeth, and she's suing both Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer, and Wal-Mart, the store that sold...
...shoppers can be convinced that something is wrong with the computers they already have, or that they need to trade in their mobile phones just because the new models display dancing Hello Kittys, any recovery in the U.S. is likely to be led by Old Economy stalwarts like Procter & Gamble or General Motors. That's bad news for Asia's tech-heavy economies...
...several new companies aiming to unlock the potential of the invisible Web for their customers. Launched in Cincinnati in 1997, the firm (www.intelliseek.com) began providing deep search resources for individual researchers, but its real targets are the intranets of global corporations. Among its biggest clients are Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble. Also Nokia and Ford, which - along with In-Q-Tel, the high-tech investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency - put up much of the $9.4 million in venture capital Intelliseek has received in recent weeks...