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Despite consumer pessimism, European online retail spending will grow this holiday season to 160% of 2000, and will total €4.1 billion according to a new brief from Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). The month of December alone will see almost 25% of all European online sales for the year. UK consumers will lead, spending €1.4 [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), in conjunction with Greenfield Online, today announced the results of the latest Forrester Online Retail Index. According to the 22nd survey in this monthly series, total US spending on online sales decreased from $4.0 billion in September to $3.6 billion in October. The number of households shopping online decreased to [...]

One-third of Japanese consumers use one of the country’s three mobile Internet services — NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode, KDDI’s ezWeb, and J-Phone’s J-Sky. Meanwhile, less than 2% of Europeans use WAP. How can the Japanese be so different? According to a new brief by Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR), the startling answer is that they’re not. [...]

More than 500 senior business executives have gathered today at the 14th annual Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Executive Strategy Forum to hear how to survive and thrive in the X Internet age. Forrester’s Forum, “The X Internet: The Next Voyage,” is being held at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, and it ends on [...]

The Net will shrink fund manufacturers’ margins unless they use it to cut their trading costs by automating fund valuations, order processing and settlement. To prosper, Forrester advises that firms must use a few winning supermarket platforms as B2B matchmakers to link to independent financial advisors (IFAs) and other attracters — and implement straight-through processing [...]

Whether the economic recovery is around the corner or a couple years off, eCommerce will continue to grow. To gauge how well online retail will withstand a prolonged recession, Forrester’s Consumer Technographics® surveyed nearly 9,000 online consumers on their buying habits and spending across various product categories. The findings revealed that eCommerce will grow through [...]

To help companies across industries select the best eProcurement applications to streamline their online purchasing processes and cut costs, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today introduces eProcurement Application TechRankings, its eighth TechRankings category. Forrester invited all major vendors in the eProcurement market to take part in the laboratory-based evaluation process, conducted jointly with Forrester’s partner, [...]

UK firms’ enterprise mobile solutions won’t pay off unless ROI gets re-evaluated, according to a new report from Forrester Research Ltd. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester asserts that firms must understand how mobile apps deliver value across a range of employee-activity types — process, knowledge and interaction — to generate up to 269% ROI over five years. [...]

A new survey released today by Forrester Research shows that the number of large companies in North America that have cut their eBusiness budgets has nearly doubled in the past five months. More than half the respondents cite the weak economy — rather than the September 11 terrorist attacks — as driving budget cuts in [...]

In its October 29 issue, Forbes Magazine chose Forrester Research, Inc., a leading emerging-technology research firm, as one of its “200 Best Small Companies in America.” Based on short- and long-term quantitative and qualitative data, Forrester was ranked No. 44, and was one of only a few companies to make the list for five consecutive [...]

According to new research from Forrester Research, the tech sector slump will end in the third quarter of 2002 and a revival will pick up momentum in 2003, but double-digit growth won’t return until 2004. The current market downturn will accelerate consolidation and change the entire technology landscape. To prepare for the transformation, Forrester recommends [...]

To combat falling margins and declining customer loyalty, UK lenders must go beyond selling traditional products online, according to a new report from Forrester Research Ltd. (Nasdaq: FORR). Leaders will repackage mortgages into Dynamic Credit lines tailored to the individual customer, Forrester asserts. “The growing number of Britons online and their rising confidence in the [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that its board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $50.0 million of its common stock. The shares may be purchased from time to time in open market or privately negotiated transactions. The shares repurchased will be used, among other things, in connection with Forrester’s employee [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on emerging technologies, today announced its third-quarter financial results and a stock buyback program. For the third quarter of 2001, revenues were $34.4 million, compared with $40.1 million in the third quarter of 2000. Pro forma net income for the third quarter of [...]

Both Bluetooth and W-LAN will succeed in Europe, contrary to popular belief. The two technologies won’t compete: They’ll play different roles, go into different devices, and arrive at different times, according to a new report by Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). Bluetooth will outnumber W-LAN by 10 to 1 in 2006 — 235 million Bluetooth-enabled [...]

Consumers are ready and willing to participate in email marketing — but they have high expectations of the quality and quantity of content they receive, according to a new Technographics® report by Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). Marketers must ask consumers’ permission before sending out emails and set clear rules of engagement if they want [...]

Senior executives from 30 of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies converged today at the Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) CPG Summit: “New Technologies For Old Brands,” at the Chicago Marriott Downtown. The Summit focuses on how technology initiatives like supply chain management, demand forecasting, online marketing, and interactive television can create efficiencies and [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on emerging technologies, will broadcast its third-quarter financial results conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. EDT, on Wednesday, October 24, 2001. The call will be available at www.forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to www.forrester.com at [...]

The National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) announce the release of the fourth NAPM/Forrester Research Report On eBusiness, a first-of-its-kind report that tracks online activity for both manufacturing and non-manufacturing organizations. The primary finding in the latest report is that the number of buying organizations that used the Internet [...]