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• Research firms adapt to the shift in industry landscape.

  - 2004-11-30

  By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 30--Research firms rode high during the high-tech boom, advising businesses to use technology to cut costs and boost efficiency. Now, they may be victims of their own success. ...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Forrester Research Inc., META Group Inc., Strategy, technology

• Tech Executives' Outlook for 2003 Is Short on Optimism.

  - 2002-12-30

  By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 30--Technologists are an optimistic lot. It takes a certain self-confidence to devote years of research and millions, sometimes billions, of dollars toward the pursuit of the next innovation that will...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Forrester Research Inc., IBM Corp., semiconductor, Strategy, Teradyne Inc.

• Analysts Say Technology Industry Will Lead Way in Overseas Outsourcing.

  - 2002-12-25

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--Spurred on by new technology and a shift in the way corporate America does business, employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas...

  Tags: back-office, Boston Globe, Companies, Forrester Research Inc., India, job, outsourcing, worker

• Online Consumer Purchases Expected to Increase 27 Percent.

  - 2002-08-29

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 29--Online consumer purchases, excluding travel, will rise 27 percent during the holidays, and despite the dot-com shakeout, online spending is on track to account for 8 percent of consumer retail ...

  Tags: Boston Globe, dot-com, Forrester Research Inc., INTERNET, Manufacturing

• Cambridge, Mass., High-Tech Research Firm's CEO Shares Insights.

  - 2002-06-10

  By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--George F. Colony, 48, the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Forrester Research Inc., has been identifying technology trends for the past 23 years. His research firm advises companies on ...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Desktops, Forrester Research Inc., HARDWARE, INTERNET, PC, technology

• Cambridge, Mass.-Based Technological Consulting Firm to Lay Off 126 Employees.

  - 2002-01-11

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 11--Forrester Research Inc., the Cambridge-based research and consulting firm that prospered with the technology boom, yesterday announced it would lay off 126 employees, almost a quarter of its staff. ...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Cambridge, consulting, E-mail, Forrester Research Inc., Outsourcing, SALES

• Retail Bargains Drive Holiday Online Sales Downward.

  - 2001-12-21

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 21--Bargains offered by malls and department stores and a slump in air travel appear to be driving online holiday sales sharply downward. A sales decline could be an Internet...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Forrester Research Inc., INTERNET, Nielsen//NetRatings, Retail, SALES

• The Boston Globe Boston Capital Column.

  - 2001-07-31

  By Steven Syre and Charles Stein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 31--People who make their living selling technology to big companies can tell you a thing or two about dry holes this year. The drought in spending on information...

  Tags: Boston Globe, FINANCE, Forrester Research Inc., Outsourcing, ROI/TCO, SALES, software

• Forrester Research Designated to the Globe 100 and the Growth 50 by the Boston Globe

  - 2000-05-17

  Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 17, 2000 The Boston Globe yesterday ranked Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) forty-eighth in The Globe 100, which ranks the 100 best-performing companies in Massachusetts. In The Growth 50, which rates Massachusetts' fastest growing companies, Forrester placed eleventh. Forrester was also listed among...

  Tags: Boston Globe, FINANCE, Forrester Research Inc., INTERNET, Massachusetts, SALES

• Forrester Research Named to The Globe 100 and The Growth 50 by The Boston Globe

  - 1999-05-18

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 18, 1999-- Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq:FORR), today was named to The Globe 100 and The Growth 50 by The Boston Globe. Forrester was 58th in The Globe 100, which ranks the 100 best-performing companies in Massachusetts. In The Growth 50, which rates Massachusetts' fastest-growing companies, Forrester...

  Tags: Boston Globe, E-business/E-commerce, FINANCE, Forrester Research Inc., INTERNET, Massachusetts, SALES