Economics
Sony's Ando on Trial Amid Electronics Sales Slump
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Sony Corp.'s Kunitake Ando will share a Las Vegas stage next month with Bill Gates and John Chambers, a coming out of sorts for the man charged with recovering $42 billion of market value lost in a year.
The Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. executives join Ando as keynote speakers at COMDEX, the largest gathering of computer and telecommunications companies. He'll need to convince investors he can emerge from the shadow of co-head Nobuyuki Idei, who addressed the show in 1999, and revive the second-biggest consumer-electronics maker even as the global economy slows.