Dr. Michele Madansky runs a media and market research consultancy specializing in online media and Internet startups.
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He talked to Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding, a Gen-Y research consultancy, and a Forbes.com contributor.
Chinese internet research consultancy, iResearch, estimates that consumer-to-consumer represented more than 87% of the Chinese e-commerce market last year.
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In the U.S. the figure was 98.7 liters per person, while in the Asia Pacific region, it was just 22.1, according to research consultancy International Wine and Spirits.
The revenues Twitter raises from advertising are expected to almost double this year compared with last year, with further big rises anticipated in future years, according to eMarketer, a research consultancy.
According to Ipsos Insight, a marketing research consultancy, 56% of Internet users in the U.S. subscribe to broadband service, and that number is expected to climb to 70% by early 2006.
"Some companies are just starting to understand the benefits of having their employees understand the internal CSR field, " says Chris Coulter, president of Globescan, a research consultancy on reputation, brand sustainability and trends.
The award was based on surveys conducted by international travel research and consultancy group Skytrax, who polled 12.1 million passengers over a nine-month period.
"I don't think the benefit to Amazon has been that great, " said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information, a research and consultancy company.
New fundamental research by the consultancy McKinsey sheds some light on why that should be.
"Apple's suffering reflects a broader issue", says James McQuivey, of Forrester Research, a consultancy.
In 2010 over 50% of renewable-energy capacity was in the hands of individuals or farmers, according to trend:research, a consultancy.
Francie Mendelsohn of Summit Research, a consultancy based in Rockville, Maryland, agrees.
Cost is once again the main reason why companies are turning to open source, says Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research, a consultancy.
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Data from Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain.
Last year 420, 000 laborers under the age of 18 were employed in cottonseed farms in four states across India, estimates Glocal Research, a consultancy in Hyderabad that monitors agricultural labor conditions.
Forrester Research, a consultancy, reckons that, by 2003, live collaboration, now used only in one-off projects between companies, will have become as much part of the Internet as e-mail is now.
Around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally, according to a recent survey from Entertainment Media Research, a consultancy (though the number of users offering illegal files has also grown, to 8.6m compared with 6.2m a year ago).
Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, estimates the number of European Internet-users almost doubled last year.
He is a founder and the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy that has 230 employees, with offices worldwide.
According to National Economic Research Associates, a consultancy, most buyers paid more for these assets than their regulators thought they were worth.
Verdict Research, a retail consultancy, is forecasting a 4.2% decline in the value of retail spending, excluding food and internet sales, in 2009.
The proposals need unanimous consent to become law, and such legislation would affect Luxembourg the most, said Richard Murphy, founder of consultancy Tax Research.
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, says Canada's share of the American oil market could grow to 37% by 2035 from 19% last year.
Only 3% of business-to-business Web sites are designed for direct sales, rather than for marketing and customer service, says Forrester Research, a Massachusetts consultancy.
Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, argues that, although a huge number of fancy new wireless data devices will be manufactured, few will gain mass-market acceptance.
Asia, excepting China and Japan, will add nearly 5m new mobile subscribers this year, according to Pyramid Research, a telecoms consultancy that is part of The Economist Group.
While working as a vice president of technology at Elder Research, an engineering consultancy, Buckner began methodically studying the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of Web 1.0 online grocers.
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In part, observes Thane Gustafson, of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, this is because many of the firms are now controlled by financiers rather than Soviet-style oil bosses.
Jon Collins, research director at UK consultancy Inter Orbis, which specializes in the impact technology is having on society and business, said this was a model that was already working very well in web development.
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