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At present, a confusing multitude of very similar portal types defines Germany’s personal financial portal market, according to a recent Report by FORIT Internet Research, the Research Center Deutschland of Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). At present, German and Swiss banks and financial services firms are trying to compete by offering an increasingly wide choice of [...]

Borders.com has knocked off perennial champion Amazon.com by the slimmest of margins in the latest PowerRankings of online book sellers by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combines survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of the leading US eCommerce sites. The companies ranking behind Borders.com are Amazon.com, [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) and the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) today announced the creation of the NAPM/Forrester Report On eBusiness, which will measure the adoption of Internet-based procurement. The first-of-its-kind report will track online activity for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing organizations. “We are thrilled to join with NAPM to produce an ongoing [...]

New intermediaries — repackagers — will emerge to drive downloadable music sales to £300 million in the UK in 2005, according to a new Report by Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). “Managing downloadable music efficiently requires a combination of rights and content management skills — found in few companies at present,” said Rebecca Ulph, analyst at [...]

Companies are holding back on Net trade because of legal concerns, according to a recent Report from Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). The first study yet undertaken anywhere in the world into the legal aspects of online business-to-business (B2B) trade advises participants to push eMarketplaces for contracts that respect confidentiality while balancing security and liability [...]

Across Europe, Web traffic will evolve in a progression that favors a few top portals and chokes off the rest, according to a recent Report from Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). But even the winning portals will lose their relevance to marketers as specialist sites, marketing services providers, and new platforms compete for the same [...]

As broadband infrastructure matures and more devices become high-speed enabled, US content providers must better match their rich media offerings to the appropriate device in order to reap untapped revenues, according to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). By 2003, broadband content will be divided sharply by device — PCs will comprise [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced that it will expand its West Coast presence by opening a research center in San Francisco in February 2001. The company plans to add more than 30 professionals to staff the office by the end [...]

Young consumers will quickly shift their focus from entertainment to finance and grow into prime financial customers. According to a new Technographics® Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), today’s Web-savvy 16- to 22-year-olds will send shockwaves through the online financial industry and bring with them the unique expectations and needs of a Net-powered generation. [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced revenues of $40.1 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2000, an increase of 83% from $22.0 million in the third quarter of 1999. For the second consecutive quarter, net income more than doubled [...]

High scores across the board lands Proflowers.com in the No. 1 slot in the Flowers category of the latest PowerRankings by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combine survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of the leading US eCommerce sites. The companies following Proflowers.com are 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Flowers [...]

Currently, far more European consumers are investigating shares online than are actually trading via the Web — and one of the keys to converting these consumers into active traders is online banking, according to a recent report from Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR). Furthermore, Forrester’s Technographics. analysis of more than 6,000 online Europeans and their [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced the launch of eBusiness TechRankings — a new breed of interactive technology selection research to help companies cut through vendor clutter and select winning technology solutions. TechRankings combines Forrester’s objective strategic analysis with rigorous laboratory-based [...]

The National Retail Federation (NRF) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), in conjunction with Greenfield Online, Inc., today announced the results of the latest NRF/Forrester Online Retail Index. According to the ninth survey in this monthly series, total spending of online sales decreased slightly — by $2.6 million — but the number of online shoppers [...]

Forrester Research B.V., Forrester’s European headquarters (Nasdaq: FORR) and Europe’s leading provider of analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced the launch of two new streams of strategic analysis on Germany’s Internet economy — the German Financial Services Market Focus and the German Business-To-Consumer Market Focus. The creation of these two new nation-specific [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) announced the hiring of Senior Analyst Stephen K. Zrike to join the company’s Online Retail research team. Zrike joins Forrester from J. Baker, an $800 million specialty retailer, where he served as the first senior VP of business development and corporate strategy. Zrike brings valuable global experience in the eCommerce, [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced five major initiatives to deliver high-quality analysis on Canada’s Internet economy. The five initiatives are: 1) a new research product focused on the evolution of the Internet economy in Canada; 2) a new research team [...]

Faced with intense competition and accelerating business cycles, firms must end their reliance on backward-looking measures to run their business. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), the majority of firms depend primarily on the financial closing cycle and general ledger for management information, limiting executives from anticipating and reacting to [...]

With only six weeks to go before the start of the holiday rush, one of the biggest obstacles facing online toy sales this season may be retailers’ privacy policies. According to Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) and Vividence Corporation, the leading authority in Web Experience Evaluation, these policies are important, as they impact toy shoppers’ [...]