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Stores offer incentives to make holiday shopping cheap and easy

...rise 15 percent to $68.4 billion, according to Forrester Research."Retailers have to do a little more to grow sales...merchandise in stores but buy it cheaper online.Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said that the online price-matching...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-11-21/stores-offer-incentives-ma
Microsoft's 'Surface' tablet aims for productivity

...thicker keyboard with depressable keys will also be available.Although the Surface looks like an elegant device, Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps criticized Microsoft for not using attention focused on Monday's announcement to highlight...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-06-19/microsofts-surface-tablet-
Subscription sites for kids' clothes offer help for parents

...most flexibility in returns and other financial terms."This saves shoppers time," says Sucharita Mulpuru, a Forrester Research analyst. "It creates a shortcut in their lives. But the challenge is whether the quality of merchandise is good...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/smart-shopper/2012-08-30/subscription
T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS to merge cellphone businesses

...capacity for wireless broadband.That ultimately could mean more choices and better services for customers, though Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin doesn't believe the deal will make a "revolutionary difference" for U.S. cellphone...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-10-03/t-mobile-usa-metropcs-merg
Intel CEO surprises board with plans to retire in May

...million PCs were sold and most of them were powered by Microsoft's Windows and Intel's microchips, according to Forrester Research. Some 142 million smartphones sold that year, at a time when the tablet market hadn't really taken off. That...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-11-19/intel-ceo-surprises-board-
Google makes patent play with Motorola deal

...bitter rivals, is desperately trying to make inroads in the mobile device market. John McCarthy, an analyst with Forrester Research, says Microsoft may try to counter Google by pursuing a long-rumored takeover of its partner, Nokia.Investors...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2011-08-15/googles-makes-patent-play-
Local banks, credit unions join in mobile banking tech development

...services in 2007, and Chase began offering mobile services through the iPhone platform in 2009.A recent study by Forrester Research found that adoption of mobile-banking services has more than doubled since early 2009, and it is predicted to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2011-09-30/local-banks
Lack of trust in Facebook could limit ad sales

...consistently successful for marketers, or that brings in the massive revenues to match the site's massive user base," Forrester Research analyst Nate Elliott said in a blog post.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that General Motors Co. plans...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-05-15/lack-trust-facebook-could-
Tablets force shift in computer industry

...the characterization may be coming true now."This is a time of intense change," said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester Research analyst who has studied the evolution of consumer technology. "New competition for PC manufacturers makes it just...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2011-07-19/rebooting-pc-industry-tabl
Mobile shopping: More buzz than buy so far

...commerce is expected to account for $6 billion this year, just 2 percent of overall e-commerce sales, according to Forrester Research. By 2016, that figure could rise to $31 billion ? still a sliver of electronic sales.Smartphone users are spending...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2011-09-04/mobile-shopping-more-buzz-