The tech titan is reportedly in talks to buy Wondery for more than $300m (£223m), one of the largest independent podcast publishers left standing in the market. Its not the only company on the hunt for podcast technology; music streamer Spotify (US:SPOT) has been hoovering up podcasters over the past few years, including start-ups Gimelt Media, Anchor and Parcast. In February last year, chief executive Daniel Ek set aside around half a billion dollars to get acquisitive in the market – and this November the company, which already leads in paid music streaming, bought podcast publisher Megaphone for around $235m.