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Staying competitive in the cloud is expensive. The two largest players in the industry aren't making it any cheaper.
 Salesforce.com and Adobe are the largest software companies that derive all or most of their revenue from subscription-based services. It is hardly a zerosum game at this point; analysts from KeyBanc Capital estimate that less than 10% of total enterprise tech spending currently goes toward cloud software. But both companies are richly valued by investors, with stock prices that have surged more than 50% so far this year on the premise that they can continue to fuel annual growth rates of 20% or more.

George is a Rolls-Royce engineer in his mid-40s who has worked at the aero engine company since graduation.
 When chief executive Warren East this week unveiled the most drastic job cut programme of the past 18 years in a bid to force through a radical transformation of the UK's premier engineer, George did not even bother to read the announcement. It was the seventh restructuring in recent years, so he knew the script: a lot of activity but not always a lot of actual change.

An expanding art fair market is pulling in designers searching for discerning buyers with deep pockets

A visit from Middle Eastern royalty stunned Taiwanese jewellery designer Anna Hu at her first showing at an art fair, the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris last September. Ms Hu had decided to exhibit her colour-drenched jewels to an art world audience to connect with international collectors she would not meet anywhere else.
 “Some had seen magazines with my work in it, others had read my book, but they don't travel to Asia so they came and found me,” she says. Ms Hu sold display pieces, took bespoke orders and, more importantly, she says, gained exposure to a wider clientele.

The liquidation of Toys “R” Us Inc. has sent the toy industry reeling, leaving Mattel Inc., Hasbro Inc. and other manufacturers without a large chain devoted to selling games and dolls and forcing them to scramble to secure other outlets to carry their items.