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SMELL THE FUTURE A company called DigiScents is developing an olfactory peripheral for home computers called the iSmell. It's like an audio speaker, but instead of sounds it makes smells. Sound crazy? Not everybody thinks so. Retail giant Procter & Gamble has signed on as a partner, and DigiScents is currently creating smells to accompany the best-selling computer game Tomb Raider. Get ready to experience Lara Croft in two separate scents: "regular" and "sweaty." Can't wait...
...NAME, TEAM] John Hommeyer, Pets.com [FORMER TEAM] Procter & Gamble [PEAK*] $2 million [CURRENT**] $0.5 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] So many pet sites, so many dogs...
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...corporate America, discussing the mobility of dairy products sure sounds a lot less threatening than terms such as restructuring, re-engineering and outsourcing. Durk Jager, chief executive of Procter & Gamble, a company in the midst of a huge overhaul, posted a notice on the employee website recommending it. Lew Platt, former head of Hewlett-Packard, endorsed it in a speech. Larry Johnson, CEO of the Bank of Hawaii, handed out 4,000 copies to staff members and asked them to discuss the story with their managers. Says he: "Our objective was to try and condition employees as much as possible...
...reason? Ostensibly because the $38 billion-a-year behemoth delivered some unexpected bad news--and Wall Street hates surprises--warning that its upcoming third-quarter earnings would fall 10% from the year before, instead of rising 7% as anticipated. For that transgression, Procter's shares were hammered, dropping $27 to $60 and shedding some $35 billion, or roughly a third of the company's market value. In the process, P&G helped drive down the already hurting Dow Jones industrial average 374 points...