{"id":822887,"date":"2024-06-17T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=822887"},"modified":"2024-06-17T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:46:15","slug":"zomato-in-talks-to-acquire-paytms-movie-events-biz-for-rs-2000-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/17\/zomato-in-talks-to-acquire-paytms-movie-events-biz-for-rs-2000-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomato in talks to acquire Paytm&#8217;s movie, events biz for Rs 2,000 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food delivery major Zomato is in advanced talks to acquire fintech player Paytm\u2019s movie and event ticketing business, a potential deal that is pegged in the range of Rs 1,600 crore-2,000 crore, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The talks are taking place at a time when Paytm is focusing on its payments and financial services business. <\/p>\n<p>Once finalised, this will be the food delivery major\u2019s second biggest purchase since acquiring Blinkit in 2022 for $569 million in an all-stock deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food delivery major Zomato is in advanced talks to acquire fintech player Paytm\u2019s movie and event ticketing business, a potential deal that is pegged in the range of Rs 1,600 crore-2,000 crore, sources said. The talks are taking place at a time when Paytm is focusing on its payments and financial services business. Once finalised, this will be the food delivery major\u2019s second biggest purchase since acquiring Blinkit in 2022 for $569 million in an all-stock deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}