- Dallas/Fort Worth’s (DFW) central U.S. location is equally close to North America’s five largest business centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Toronto
- DFW Metropolitan area is home to 25 Fortune 500 headquarters, six Global 500 headquarters and 900 other headquarter operations
- DFW offers the largest number of college educated residents of any metropolitan area in the state of Texas and among the highest in the nation (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2006)
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- Texas has no personal or corporate income tax and no state property or unitary state tax ( Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
- The region’s technology sector employs over 228,000 workers. This figure is greater than the technology employment of Austin and Houston combined
- Dallas is home to technology leaders; ACS, AT&T, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Lockheed Martin,
Perot Systems, Raytheon, Research in Motion/Blackberry and Texas Instruments
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