When Amazon.com started selling books online, bookstores were worried but not many others really seemed to to care. Music and video followed, and suddenly people buy everything from Amazon. Businesses even host their IT on Amazon’s servers while entire industries have blossomed around the vendor. Previously Amazon quietly entered the CPU business through their acquisition of Annapurna Labs, and last week announced new products that bring it closer to home networking and storage. Naturally you’d think that this might be bad news for Broadcom or Intel, but what if the real threat is to Time Warner Cable, Comcast and a host of other companies in the internet service provider business? Google is already encroaching on both the networking business with their OnHub product as well as the broadband delivery with Google Fiber. The announcement from Annapurna could tip the hand on Amazon’s future direction.

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