MSN India and Astrolife.com have announced a partership. Astrolife will now power MSN India’s Astrology portal. Astrolife.com is an online portal for the astrological and divination services providing the widest range of astrological and divination services in India. Astrolife.com is part of People Interactive, which owns and operates businesses such as Shaadi.com and Fropper.com. Jaspreet Bindra, country manager, MSN India said, “Our partnership with Astrolife will provide our users with the best astrology content online and is part of MSN India’s commitment to provide its users with the best online experience. We are indeed pleased to partner with Astrolife; this…

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According to reports from BakuToday, Yahoo! Kimo has said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WRETCH, a Taiwanese social media content provider of weblosg and online photo album services. WRETCH has around 6.5 million members users every month! The acquisition is expected to be completed by March 2007. It is rumoured to be around $22 million! Yahoo! is definitely spreading its base with a number of acquisitions lately. Via: GigaOM

BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent, a small BitTorrent client, for an undisclosed sum. “BitTorrent recognizes µTorrent’s exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community,” said Bram Cohen, chief executive and co-founder of BitTorrent, in a statement. “By teaming with BitTorrent, we will benefit from a truly global reach and technology leadership to deliver the best experience for our users,” said Ludvig Strigeus, developer of µTorrent, in a statement. When comparing the two clients µTorrent definitely wins hands down. Though the current version of BitTorrent is definitely better than the previous versions, it still has a long way to go. What remains to…

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After acquiring Bix, Yahoo! has acquired another social networking site called MyBlogLog reports Techcrunch. I had blogged about the same on my personal blog just a few days back. Seems like Yahoo! has big plans on entering the Social Networking market. And I’m welcoming it with arms open wide Join the Techtites community on MyBlogLog.

Bix announced today that they have signed an agreement to be acquired by Yahoo! Bix is a 16-person company headed by Mike Speiser. Bix is an online community which has grown tremendously since its inception with over one million visitors to date. Contests on Bix can to be started by Bix members or by corporate sponsors. Winners are selected by the largest vote tally. Bix CEO Mike Speiser will continue running Bix. He will also be responsible for Yahoo! Groups, 360, and Photos under the title VP of Community. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Via Techcrunch and…

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Text Link Ads a leading advertising firm has been acquired by MediaWhiz Holdings. TLA has been a great source of income for thousands of publishers. TLA lets advertisers to place simple text links on the websites of publishers. You also have an affiliate program where you can earn money on new referrals. MediaWhiz was founded in 2001 by Jason Cohen. They are into lead generation, affiliate and email marketing and display advertising (similar to TLA). Patrick Gavin, President of TLA in his email has stated that the workforce behind TLA will remain the same. They will be moving to New…

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DropSend is a file sharing application / service that lets you send files upto 1Gb online, as well as store files according to various plans. DropSend is run by Carson Systems, atleast until they find a new buyer. Carson Systems has announced that they will be selling DropSend because they don’t have the time to maintain the system. They have already received six email as of now. Ryan also hints that Geoffrey Arrone (from Flock) may be interested in the sale. I will continue monitoring the sale details. You can follow the same on the official blog. Via: Techcrunch

There is a blog post on the Reddit blog that says that Condé Nast has acquired Reddit. Condé Nast is also the owner of Wired and other magazines. The rumoured price tag is about $65million! Techcrunch too has a story on this.

Joe Kraus of JotSpot reports that JotSpot is now a part of Google. What is JotSpot’s product? While other wikis only support plain old text, JotSpot’s wiki allows you to create rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries. It’s as easy as using a word processor — you don’t need to know HTML. Thousands of businesses are using JotSpot to manage projects, build an intranet, share files and stay in sync with colleagues and customers. Registrations are now closed and you call fill in your email address in case you wish to be notified of releases. They have put…

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