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COMDEX

American trade show

Also known as: Computer Dealers Exposition

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Adelson

In Sheldon Adelson
In 1979 Interface launched COMDEX (Computer Dealers Exposition), a computer industry trade show, even though Adelson himself claimed no expertise in computers. COMDEX convened annually in Las Vegas and soon became one of the world’s largest trade shows in its field and the first building block of the Adelson…
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Son Masayoshi

In Son Masayoshi
…division; the rights to host COMDEX, the computer industry’s largest trade show, from the Interface Group; and a majority share in Kingston Technology Company, Inc., an American memory-card maker. In 1996 Softbank joined News Corporation of Australia, which was run by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, in the purchase of a…
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