Wizzard Software released a shareholder announcement today, highlighting its accomplishments in the first three quarters of 2006. According to the company, “With the acquisitions of Switchpod and Blast Podcast and the pending acquisition of Liberated Syndication, we now are the largest podcasting network in the world.” According to Wizard, the combined organizations deliver over 43 […]

ID3 Magazine today announced the inclusion of GoFish Corporation (OTCBB: GOFH) and Wizzard Software Corporation (OTCBB: WIZD) in its ID3 Podcast Index of publicly traded podcasting-related companies. “We have selected these two companies to include in the index, because they both exhibit strong user and client traction and are representative of the high-growth potential in […]

FeedCycle has introduced a new web service that manages cyclic web feeds – feeds that let subscribers receive, on a scheduled basis, sequential episodes from within a series of episodes. For example, if you have a 10 part training course in a cyclid web feed, on day 1 you would receive the first topic, on […]

Google Watch reports that Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio sometime this quarter. “Earlier this year, Google contracted with several podcast engineers to help them develop Google AdSense for Audio. According to one source the product was originally slated for a 3Q release, but apparently it slipped behind a month or so. Scuttlebutt […]

WildVoice, a personal broadcasting community, has developed a Halloween-themed podcast player, right, that anyone can use on WildVoice, in their MySpace page or other blogs to play their audio recordings. It’s configured so that, once Halloween is over, users only need to switch the player to a new skin and it will automatically update on […]

Wizzard Software, a company that specializes in speech recognition applications, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a $1,750,000 private placement with institutional investors. Earlier in the week, the company announced that it was acquiring podcast hosting service Libsyn. “The capital infusion allows us to continue funding our recently announced podcasting […]

Wizzard Software announced today that it has agreed to acquire Libsyn, the world‚Äôs largest podcasting network. Wizzard is on a spending spree; recently it announced several other podcast-related acquisitions. ‚ÄúLibsyn is on a mission to empower the content creator in this new age of independent media by creating unique opportunities to share advertising revenues with […]

Evan Williams has announced that he has created a new startup, Obvious Corp, and purchased the assets of the podcasting community he helped found, Odeo. Odeo has struggled to meet William’s expectations; though it’s a relatively popular podcasting community, the field is dominated by Apple. “I screwed up several things, which hindered that quick success,” […]

spodradio, a radio and podcast hub for mobiles, today announced $10 million of Series B funding from Benchmark Capital Europe and Baytech Venture Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate spodradio‚Äôs expansion into international markets and help develop new services. spodradio enables the mobile phone to be used as a music device with “a […]

Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Private Domain Depot has introduced a Quick Podcast service for home, hobby or business podcasters. The company is offering three plans to choose from, starting at $5.99/month for 1GB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth, which they say is equivalent to about 3,600 downloads of a 1-hour talk […]