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Google is electronics supply chain's new kid on the block
Brian Fuller
3/11/2013 1:29 PM EDT
Less than a year after Amazon shook up things in the business-to-business supply chain, here comes Google. The search giant has launched a beta version of Google Shopping for Suppliers, which right now is focused on the electrical and electronics industries.
Amazon Supply, which serves a host of different industries, now features more than 600,000 parts in areas such as industrial and test equipment. As Bolaji Ojo put it in a post last year when that venue was unveiled:
Amazon Supply, which serves a host of different industries, now features more than 600,000 parts in areas such as industrial and test equipment. As Bolaji Ojo put it in a post last year when that venue was unveiled:
If you supply products to the electronics industry, the archrival you should be concerned about may no longer be the company you've competed against for decades. It's Amazon.Click to read the rest of this story on EDN.
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Bert22306
3/11/2013 4:39 PM EDT
My thought is, Brian, that it's small wonder if the major TV networks blocked their content from GoogleTV devices. Precisely because they didn't want to have to depend universally on Google's good graces, to have their content show up on Internet TV sets.
I'm not sure why the pundits didn't advance this rather obvious reason at the time, in 2010, when GoogleTv boxes were being blocked.
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