When the company fell from dominance in the U.S., it was mainly due to products coming out of Cupertino, Calif.
Microsoft's influence stems from the dominance of its Windows operating system, which runs over 90% of the world's desktop computers.
Polish officials say that conflicts stem from the dominance of large shareholders in listed companies, the result of a spate of privatisation tenders over the past decade in which many of the country's biggest companies were sold to western multinationals.
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Xerox, once the darling of the American high-technology community, slipped from its former dominance.
The only thing that will prevent Howard from continuing his dominance is his back.
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Stand-up comics are leading the way, a change from the past dominance of television by sit-coms and sketch shows.
Air dominance from all the services was another big advantage for the coalition, Shepperd said, as it was in the 1991 war.
And though it may not be an Intel killer, it could prevent that firm from extending its dominance of the desktop into the living room.
Early dominance from the Blues pack applied just enough pressure to keep the Scarlets on the back foot and earn two penalties that Blair eased between the posts.
But we can look at the marketing practices their firms used to rocket from irrelevance to dominance, and we can examine how an old-line company outside of tech has adapted those approaches successfully.
"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels, " she exclaimed.
Four wins in a row in the championship series, topped off with a showboating demolition of his rivals in the grand final in Australia - an unprecedented dominance from anyone, let alone a 21-year-old in his first full year on the senior circuit.
Apple's dominance stems from the popularity of its iPod media player and its integration with the iTunes software.
Neither company is pitching from a position of dominance, which it would have done in previous eras, but rather one of world-weary self interest.
One reason no one has been able to unseat Microsoft from desktop operating system dominance is that no one has offered a fundamentally different product that actually changes some of these longstanding issues.
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But the most intriguing potential threat to Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) dominance comes from biotech stalwart Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ).
Tackles flew in from both sides in a markedly physical battle for midfield dominance, but a brilliant strike from Cahill on nine minutes put Everton ahead on the scoresheet.
Market dominance arising solely from innovation is therefore virtually unassailable under the antitrust laws.
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In the past four years Huang has taken Nvidia from a trailing position to dominance in the breakneck, highly lucrative graphics-chip business.
But the new challenge to foreign ministers' dominance, coming from finance and economic ministers, is a much bigger one, which could prove fatal.
The news comes as Intel is facing a fresh challenge to its dominance this year from the mobile processor companies that dominate the fast-growing markets for smart phones and tablet computers.
Germany's rulers have clearly heard the criticism from many outside observers about the dominance of exports in their economic model.
He believes this approach will help to spread virtualisation more quickly and prevent VMware from establishing a Microsoft-like dominance of the market.
Although he tries from time to time to assert dominance over the two women, the play ends with no clear victors or vanquished.
However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.
Jane Carter, the former editor of Women and Golf magazine, told CNN the Swede's dominance of the game from the late 1990s laid the groundwork for today's field of talented female golfers.
One company that stands to gain considerably from a decline in Cisco's dominance is Juniper Networks.
But it remains a risky business, because, aside from Illumina, which has maintained its dominance, there are lots of other technologies that could still emerge to displace it.
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Such is the importance of software on mobile devices these days, that for the Lumia 800 and future Windows devices from Nokia to regain some semblance of dominance, other competing device makers like HTC and Samsung need to start shifting more phones that run on Windows.
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