The Chicago Daily Herald reports that the the Chicago Area Podcasters Network has been growing since its inception in 2006, and is now an active, vibrant group.
The group started with 10 members and has grown to about 50. 
“Things really changed once iTunes made podcasting available,” said Tom Kim of Libertyville, founder of the podcasting group.
According to [...]

Podcast network blubrry has introduced a new service for podcasters, Premium Podcast Statistics:
Many of you using our Podcast Statistic service have asked for a wide variety of additional reports.
While our basic stats package will remain free, we want to bring you a much richer data set in the plus package which will be priced at [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald took a look at the Cult of Podcast Celebrity and profiled pioneering podcaster Cameron Reilly:
One Australian who is using podcasting to give himself - and his fellow podcasters - a voice is Cameron Reilly, who founded the Podcast Network - a stable of podcasts ranging from religion to martial arts.
“I made [...]

The Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review reports that Wizzard Software Inc. “entered into an agreement with four institutional investors for $7.5 million in equity financing.”
Wizzard has, in the past year, acquired three podcast-hosting networks, Switchpod, Blast Podcast and Liberated Syndication (Libsyn). This new batch of financing follows a $1.75 million investment announced last October. That earlier financing [...]

Podcasting network PodShow appears to be getting some unwanted attention from hackers.
Some PodShow members have reported getting emails like this:
—–Original Message—–
From: hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com [mailto:hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:18 AM
To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.com
Subject: HACKED!
podshow.com got HACKED by yeknom!
PodShow has contained the issue and released this statement:
At approximately 10am PST today, an attempt was made to compromise our network. [...]

Wizzard Media, the leading podcast hosting network, distributed over 70,000,000 podcast episodes in March to an audience of millions, according to the company.
In the first quarter of 2007, Wizzard Media’s network growth surpassed 50% of the 360,000,000 episodes it distributed in all of 2006 for its 8,000 independent and corporate clients. Daily requests for its [...]

Podango this week announced a partnership with podcaster Scott Bourne, who will be working with Podango as executive strategic advisor.
“Scott is a recognized leader in the podcasting space and brings additional strength to the Podango team,” said Lee Gibbons, Podango CEO. “Scott has been in podcasting from the early days. His expertise will add to [...]

Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts.
Description:
Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha Podcast Network [...]

PodShow has officially announced that the company has raised a second round of venture funding from new and original investors, totaling $15M.
The Company has been working to provide broader and more reliable distribution on the Internet while initiating plans to move its content into the home and across all mobile devices.
“This new investment will help [...]

PodShow, a startup podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, reportedly is getting an additional $15 million venture capital investment.
According to Thomson Financial:
PodShow inc., which recently raised $15 million in Series B funding. This follows up on an $8.85 million Series A deal from last summer, from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Ram Shiram [...]