Infonetics Research: IP contact center market up 37%, UC market mixed in 2008 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports the IP contact center market will finish 2008 up 37% over 2007, with many vendors reporting robust sales, particularly in Asia Pacific.

UAE Stocks Shed 57 Per Cent in 2008; Market Cap Put at Dh388b (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI - UAE's two stock markets recorded a compounded annual growth rate of 36.76 per cent in combined market capitalisation despite a plunge of 57 per cent in 2008, according to an equity research firm.

CCID Consulting Provides a Review and Forecast of China's IPTV Market (Broadcast Newsroom)
BEIJING, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), recently released its article on China's IPTV market.

Leading Analyst Firm Profiles Brainware In Worldwide Capture And Image Management Software 2008-2012 Forecast And ... (DataCollectionOnline)
Brainware, Inc., an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, announced recently that IDC, the leading technology research firm, has profiled the company in its Worldwide Capture and Image Management Software 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis report.

CCID Consulting Provides a Review and Forecast of China's IPTV Market (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong , recently released its article on China's IPTV market.

They research the market for your ideas (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) When Bev Kothe and Nancy Burnap founded MarketWise in 1987, Charlotte was a newly booming city, and many companies' research needs were being outsourced to more established cities, such as Atlanta. MarketWise, located on Morehead Street at the edge of uptown, is a custom marketing research firm. The company, which has about 10 full-time and 50 ...

Blue Coat Rises to Number One in Market Share for WAN Optimization Solutions (Broadcast Newsroom)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it is ranked as the leader of the WAN optimization equipment market according to a new report from Gartner, Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory company.

Hewitt's best employers study fulfills its promise as it becomes largest employee research project in Middle East (AME Info)
Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting firm has announced that the inaugural Best Employers Study in Middle East 2009 has realized its projected scale and has become the largest employee research project ever conducted in the Middle East.

USA.NET Rated Top Player in Broader Hosted Email Market According to The Radicati Group (Centre Daily Times)
USA.NET ® , Inc. announced today that industry leading analyst firm, The Radicati Group, Inc., ranked it as a "Top Player" in their Hosted Business Email–Market Quadrant 2008 report. USA.NET was recognized for leading the market in terms of market share and for its comprehensive suite of hosted business email services offered at affordable prices. The only other company that ranked close to ...

Morgan Stanley's Jen Shifts to Sales, Trading From Research (Bloomberg)
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley's Stephen Jen said he's joining the firm's foreign exchange and emerging markets sales and trading group and will no longer serve as global head of currency research.