Matt Odynski

Today, the Vancouver-based audit platform ACL announced a rebrand to ‘Galvanize‘ and the unveiled their already-in-market governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform dubbed HighBond. The rebrand is the capstone in a transformation 5+ years in the making. President and CEO Laurie Schultz joined the firm seven years ago with a vision to change ACL’s product offering—and its tone and pace.

This weekend saw some big changes at Snapchat, and specifically the name itself. Snapchat the company will henceforth be known as Snap Inc. as detailed in a news release on their website. The name change itself is directly related to Snap Inc’s newest product ‘Spectacles’ – more on that below. The news broke last weekend as an apparent promotional video was leaked for the new eyewear, ending with the text “Spectacles by Snap Inc.” Snapchat-er – Snap Inc.

Every third Youtube video that you watch is associated with BBTV… mic drop. Tens of thousands of content creators, 34 billion monthly impressions, 285 million unique viewers, 400 (and growing) employees, and 23 internal departments; welcome to BroadbandTV aka BBTV. Shahrzad Rafati is BBTV’s Iranian-born founder who pioneered the business after seeing the distinct difference in access to content between her birthplace and her Canadian home of Vancouver.