In the age of PR disruption, much of the emphasis has focused on the advent of social media and the transformation of journalism.

Changes in the tech analyst sector started when world’s largest, billion-dollar analyst house Gartner gobbled up many specialty analyst shops like the Burton Group and AMR Research in late 2009. Gartner’s smaller, but formidable, rival Forrester had made some key acquisitions as well, most notably Giga Information Group and Jupiter Research.