A time for small firms to take tech’s stage

CES Tech East: Las Vegas Convention (Christina BeDell/CES )

LAS VEGAS: On any given day during the year, tech news is typically dominated by the Apples, Amazons, Facebooks and Googles of the world. 

Not so every January, when CES descends on Las Vegas and attention turns for a few brief days to roughly 4,000 exhibiting companies, many of them little-known or completely unheard of start-ups.