Yahoo! is said to be buying new storage at the rate of one terabyte (trillion bytes) a week; industry tales tell of a constant stream of 18-wheeler trucks delivering new storage units to AOL.
Yet despite industry tales of crying in the corridors when the end result was seen, six months on, the agency's new business director Juliette Soskiss insists that the experience was "a good thing".
For two hours, a handful of New York's most articulate "hos" (as they endearingly call themselves), share intimate, industry tales.
Both transformed American narrative and character but "The Sopranos" created a cottage industry: Tales of men battling internal demons and external pressures took the idiot box to "prestige television" until, inevitably, their sheer number and similarity ensured a backlash.
Ms. Saunders had a change of heart in 2009 at the liquor industry's Tales of the Cocktail convention, which draws the cocktail demimonde's elite to New Orleans every July.
How they found him is an unusual story in an industry rampant with tales of swindled royalties, corruption and stolen song credits.
But for the film industry Lovelace's tale is not just the latest example of harrowing reality transmuted into celluloid fantasy.
Is it possible, after all, that through the pharmaceutical industry a fairy-tale ending could come to pass?
(The industry abounds in tales of cross-linguistic gaffes, like Creap coffee creamer from Japan, Bum potato chips from Spain, and the Chevy Nova — in Spanish, the "no go").
Some wondered whether the pressures of her industry, riddled with tales of young women succumbing to depression, anorexia and drugs, had something to do with her death.
