On this week's BIV podcast, hosts Tyler Orton and Hayley Woodin discuss Hootsuite's move to pick up its third acquisition in six weeks by seeking to buy a Snapchat social analytics tool from the Los Angeles-based company Narrative.
Then the pair discusses how the recent federal budget would apply GST/HST to ridesharing companies. Uber Canada is protesting the move.
And Pepsi, WalMart, Starbucks and some of the world’s biggest brands are boycotting YouTube after discovering their ads are playing in front of offensive content, including racist videos.
This week's feature interviews cover the 2017 federal budget. The hosts chat with Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC World Markets, and then move onto an interview with Tsur Somerville, senior fellow at the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate.
