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Lisa Laporte - CEO -  TWiT.tv

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NEWS: 


Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has
secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than
950 original shows and plans to move into new markets.


$78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on
transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding


Spotify CFO Paul Vogel says the company has $3.5bn in cash
for acquisitions. Speaking at a conference in Boston MA, USA, he
said: “Podcasting was this business that for 20 years didn’t
change — it was a simple RSS feed — no way to do anything
different”. (Paul - podcasts are 18 years old).


Matt Deegan writes about making your audio business
acquirable, looking into more detail into Spotify CFO Paul
Vogel’s announcements.


Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix
Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix shows and
additional audio.


Podcasts in Samsung Free’s Listen Tab have launched in
Europe. The podcast app is available exclusively to Samsung
Galaxy owners, in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain,
France and Italy. You can add your podcast here.




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