Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press revolution succeeded in putting software at the center of the world.
Just a couple of years after its economic crisis it feels like the center of the world again.
Today's development suggests that's not entirely true, that the U.S. still is the center of the world economy.
The center of the world economically has clearly shifted from where it was in 1902 when the Rhodes was established.
In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.
For example, in Flanders, the textile center of the world, the banks forced productivity-oriented consolidations of hundreds of small producers into a few textile firms.
But when he started Siebel Systems in 1993, he applied an Oracle tactic in reverse: to make the customer, not sales quotas, the center of the world.
Pushed to the center of the world stage as one of the most promising destination for capital chasing yields and risk, Brazil has struggled to balance its growth.
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It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.
It is also the city that is at the geographical center of the new world taking shape before our eyes.
Over the coming decades, will Asia replace the United States as the center of the pharmaceutical world?
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a fireside chat, tried to convince the world that Apple is still the center of innovation in the technology world.
Unrest in Egypt is particularly unsettling, because it is the cultural center of the Arab world and is often seen as a trend-setter for the rest of the region.
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It is a region that, in 50 years' time, will undoubtedly be the new power center of the world game.
The line between San Fernando and Silicon Valley points not only to the intellectual center of world from the 1970s through the 1990s, but intellectual to a degree that bears comparison with Renaissance Italy and Enlightenment Scotland.
And it could reverberate far beyond the country's borders, since Egypt is in many ways the center of gravity of the Arab world.
Back home Morris was a key promoter of the Erie Canal, which made New York the commercial center of the new nation--and indeed of the world.
The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
Today, the Slurry Wall is one of the most haunting features of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum.
New York (CNN) -- Construction crews at the 16-acre World Trade Center site will raise the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One World Trade Center on Monday morning, making the building the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, according to the site's management.
Toxic chemicals have been detected at levels exceeding federal safety standards in the soil and air around the still-burning rubble of the World Trade Center, according to documents compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The model of the jagged steel remains of the World Trade Center, which stands in front of the house, was one of his first works.
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At the disaster site, Giuliani said, workers were proceeding carefully to ensure the giant sea wall surrounding the underground levels of the World Trade Center complex was not in danger of flooding.
Three days ago, Rebekah Brooks, the controversial former News of the World editor at the center of the phone hacking scandal, was still enjoying the support of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.
It was issued in August 2001 and showed an entry to Pakistan early the following month - days before the twin towers of the World Trade Center were attacked.
But after the 2000 burst of the dot-com bubble and the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, Sheppard found that people were less open to innovative, quirky ideas and more concerned about money.
It's the only surviving above ground remnant of the World Trade Center and yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation named it one of the 11 most endangered places in the country.
Huawei Device believes that everyone can be the center of information and that the world would be a better place if access and information barriers were knocked down.
Aon, the company that published the survey, had offices on three floors of the World Trade Center and lost 175 employees in the September 11 attacks.
But the masterpieces at the center of the exhibitions introduce visitors to the lost world of the flamboyant, nomadic warriors known as the Scythians.
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