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In the US, technology research and consulting firm Forrester has acquired rival JupiterResearch and its parent company JUPR Holdings for $23m in cash plus assumed liabilities. In addition, Forrester has posted Q2 revenue of $63.5m, compared with $55.2m last year. More
Business intelligence provider SNL Financial has acquired media research and analysis firm, Kagan Research, for an undisclosed sum. The move means the dissolution of year-old partnership JupiterKagan, Inc. - JupiterResearch returns to independence. More
Internet and technology-focused provider JupiterResearch has hired three industry veterans as analysts. Kevin Heisler, Neil Strother and Doug Williams will cover search marketing, mobile marketing & media and broadband. More
Technology specialist JupiterResearch has announced the launch of its new Mobile Media & Marketing Research service and released initial results, forecasting a total advertiser spend on mobile messaging and display advertising of $2.9bn in 2011, up from $1.4bn in 2006. More
JupiterResearch has launched a new 'Social Marketing research' service which will specialise in online social networking and user-generated media, otherwise known as consumer-generated media or CGM. More
US media and technology specialist JupiterResearch has been bought from its parent, Jupitermedia Corporation, and merged with Kagan Research, which the new owner MCG Capital Corporation acquired in 2004. The merged company will be known as JupiterKagan, Inc. More
JupiterResearch forecasts that online retail spending will increase by 17% in the next year - from $81bn in 2005 to $95bn in 2006, and by 78% in the next five years, growing to $144bn in 2010. More
A new study from JupiterResearch shows that the average US Internet user spends 14 hours a week online - the same amount of time they spend watching TV. As the web takes over, readership of paper-based publications is suffering. More
Word-of-mouth research specialist BuzzMetrics has appointed Gary Stein, formerly a senior analyst at Jupiter Research, to lead its new San Francisco office as Director of Client Services. More
A quarter of US computer users have stopped buying online in an attempt to avoid identity theft, according to a study of 1,500 US consumers by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Consumer Reports WebWatch. At the same time, Jupiter Research and comScore both report significant online shopping growth. More
US adults are gradually increasing their use of the Internet as a news source. The number citing it as their main source of news has grown from 19% in 2001 to 26% now, according to JupiterResearch. TV and newspapers are the sources replaced. More
JupiterResearch has launched a new service called SMB Marketing, which will identify and profile attractive market segments among small- and medium-size businesses, and suggest effective tactics to win market share. The first report looks at their technology spending in 2005. More
Online advertising spend will more than double over the next five years, according to a new forecast by JupiterResearch. Jupiter sees the market growing from $6.6 billion in 2003 to $16.1 billion in 2009. More
Portable gaming is set for rapid growth over the next few years, fuelled by competition, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. Revenue for the sector is forecast to grow from $1.6 billion in 2003 to $2.7 billion in 2009, while the audience almost doubles from 23 million to 43 million. More
JupiterResearch has announced a new research service covering home theater and digital home entertainment. The August launch will be the eighth new practice started by JupiterResearch since it was acquired in July 2002. More
More than one third of e-mail marketing offers tracked in a recent study by JupiterResearch are not compliant with the federal Can-Spam Act. More
US consumers choosing a cell phone prioritise small size and voice-related functionality over more advanced features such as integrated digital cameras, games, PDAs or music players, according a survey by Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation. Most are unwilling to pay even $49 extra for such 'smartphones'. More
Jupiter Research has recently announced the launch of two new services to its product portfolio, the Web Site Review service and dedicated research analyst Weblogs. More
INT Media Group has recently announced that it has changed its name to Jupitermedia Corporation, following the acquisition of the assets of the Jupiter Research and Events businesses from Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc. in July. More
At the end of last week, Jupiter Media Metrix disclosed that it had filed a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to its previously announced sale of the assets of its Jupiter Research and Events businesses as well as a proposed plan, approved by the company's board of directors on June 25, 2002, to liquidate and dissolve the company. More
INT Media Group, Inc. has this week announced that it is to acquire Jupiter Research and Events businesses from Jupiter Media Metrix. The deal is worth some $250,000 and will be finalised by July 31, 2002. More
Loyalty to big retail websites varies across Europe, according to Jupiter research just released for the first time. The latest results show that German online shoppers are likely to return to a site the most, whilst the Italian and Swiss are less likely to do so. More
Most predictions of the future for DTV in Europe underestimate the potential size of the market. Or so new Jupiter research indicates. New intelligence from the company suggests that more European households will be watching digital TV than will be using the Internet within 5 years. More
Jupiter Media Metrix predicts that 41% of online households in the USA will subscribe to a broadband Internet connection service by 2006 - up from only 9% percent in 2000. In two new Jupiter Research broadband reports, the advice for companies offering services online is to begin preparing now for the coming broadband mainstream in the next year. More
Today's teenagers are pioneering how tomorrow's Internet will be used, according to new data from Jupiter MMXI. Representing the first real generation to grow up with the technology, their increasing time spent online (i.e an average of eight hours a week and rising) is indicative of things to come. More
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