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Betting revenues aren’t going to salvage ailing UK sports Web sites — this market is still over-supplied, and the next five years will see both the multi-sports and single-sport market decimated, leaving a few leading players, according to a new Report by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester advises that survival depends on capturing unique content [...]

Despite retailers’ enthusiasm for mobile payment, consumers don’t want it, providers can’t offer it, and technology can’t support it, according to a new Report by Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). These issues will not be resolved in the first half of this decade, limiting mobile payment to €26 billion in 2005. Of the five segments [...]

As the UK gears up for the general election, one-fifth of voters would be happy to vote online, according to new research from Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). In March, Forrester conducted an online survey of almost 750 UK adults of voting age, assessing their views about interacting with government online and their voting intentions in [...]

Institutional investors rely on dealers to execute stock trades but suffer high trading costs on large and difficult trades. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), dealers will create equity trading communities to efficiently match large buyers and sellers of stock and allow them to actively and anonymously negotiate prices. As [...]

Administrative, financial, and clinical connectivity between care providers and other stakeholders across the healthcare value chain will reinvent Europe’s healthcare providers, according to a new Report by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). But getting there will require governments and private stakeholders to invest in ubiquitous access, national connectivity backbones, and incentives for participation. “Today, funding and [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on emerging technologies, today announced the official opening of its San Francisco Research Center at 799 Market Street. The new West Coast office is fully operational and staffed by a team of research analysts, sales, and infrastructure personnel. “Since we first moved to [...]

As corporations feel pressure to build customer relationship management (CRM) solutions due to competition, customer complaints, or the pursuit of profits, they are creating sophisticated CRM plans. Meanwhile, CRM costs are skyrocketing due to overlapping product offers and poorly coordinated spending, according to a new Report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Companies can either [...]

Today, more than 100 tobacco e-tailers sell tobacco tax-free and without verifying buyers’ age — creating challenges for parents, public policy advocates, and lawmakers. By 2005, tobacco e-tailers will sell $5 billion of tobacco products, causing states to lose $1.4 billion in tax revenue, according to a new consumer packaged goods Brief, “Online Tobacco Sales [...]

NetRatings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), a provider of the Nielsen/NetRatings Internet audience measurement services, and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of technology research and analysis, today announced a strategic partnership to create the industry’s first Technographics® Internet audience measurement service. The new service will provide Web marketers a tool to understand how consumer [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), in conjunction with Greenfield Online, today announced the results of the latest Forrester Online Retail Index. According to the 15th survey in this monthly series, total spending on online sales increased from $3.4 billion in February to $3.5 billion in March. The number of households shopping online remained at 13.5 [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on emerging technologies, today announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2001. For the first quarter of 2001, revenues increased 42% to $43.6 million from $30.8 million in the first quarter of 2000. Net income for the first quarter [...]

A recent study by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) reveals that while more UK Internet users are searching for jobs online, the vast proportion of them are only browsing and are not yet fully interacting through the Web. “Nearly two-thirds (61%) of UK Internet users who work full time and plan to look for a new [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced the launch of its Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Market Focus, in-depth research and analysis on how the Internet and emerging technologies are reshaping the business practices of the CPG industry. Specifically tailored for CPG manufacturers, grocery retailers, and service providers, the CPG Market Focus includes extensive industry data [...]

The Internet will transform personal pensions distribution in the UK, according to a new Report by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). Open Finance providers will integrate pensions with other investments by stripping away the tax wrapper. Life companies must specialise and seek new partners as the industry becomes an eBusiness network. “The Net simplifies personal pensions [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on emerging technologies and the Internet, plans to Webcast its first-quarter financial results conference call at 11:00 a.m., EST, on Tuesday, April 24, 2001. The call will be available via Webcast at www.forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in [...]

Federal and provincial Canadian officials see the Net as an important channel for the delivery of services. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), even though government agencies are rolling out a variety of online services, these efforts won’t fulfill Canada’s ambition for seamless government. Canada should replace these fragmented activities [...]

The National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) announced the release of the second NAPM/Forrester Research Report On eBusiness, a report that tracks online activity for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing organizations. The report shows that 71% of organizations use the Internet for indirect purchases — a sharp increase from 61% [...]

Companies strive to unite their global businesses and present a single view of their customers. To solve this problem, firms struggling with homegrown technology to wed their business applications and processes must invest in integration servers, according to Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Available today, Forrester’s new Integration Server TechRankings, the first definitive study of [...]

Despite a tumultuous environment created by rising energy prices and new laws and regulations, online energy trading in wholesale markets surged 750% from 1999 to 2000. According to a new Report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), online energy trading will continue this rapid growth — leaping from $400 billion in 2000 to $3.6 trillion [...]