This week: the battle of the giants, what’s up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

 

The stories this week:

The battle of the tech giants 

Bitcoin and energy futures

Stoneless avocados

 

Other stories we bring up:

Frightful 5

Google and Amazon in bitter feud

Amazon is bumping into Microsoft with ‘Alexa for Business’

Digg.com – Bitcoin value, what the heck

Bitcoin parody

Bitcoin “a dangerous bubble”

Is Bitcoin a huge bubble?

Bitcoin price soars

Bitcoin bulls and bears

Why the biggest Bitcoin mines are in China

The Bitcoin whales

Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed’

People react to stoneless avocados

 

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