<article><a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=paytm" target="_blank">Paytm</a> is interested in a slice of <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Yatra.com" target="_blank">Yatra.com</a>, and <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Vodafone" target="_blank">Vodafone</a> is buying <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=YOU+Broadband" target="_blank">YOU Broadband</a>.</article>

<a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=paytm" target="_blank">Paytm</a> is interested in a slice of <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Yatra.com" target="_blank">Yatra.com</a>, and <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Vodafone" target="_blank">Vodafone</a> is buying <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=YOU+Broadband" target="_blank">YOU Broadband</a>.
<h3>Paytm might take stake in Yatra</h3>
Alibaba-backed Paytm might take a stake in online travel site Yatra.com to boost its own marketplace business according to an article in the Economic Times citing unnamed sources.
The deal would help Paytm enhance its own travel business. <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Snapdeal" target="_blank">Snapdeal</a> has already moved ahead with a similar plan, by integrating <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=redBus">redBus</a> and <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Cleartrip">Cleartrip</a> in its mobile application.
Yatra&#8217;s bigger rival MakeMyTrip had raised Rs 1200 crore from China&#8217;s <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Ctrip">Ctrip</a> in January.
<h3>Vodafone to acquire YOU Broadband</h3>
<a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Vodafone">Vodafone</a>&#8216;s India unit has signed an agreement to acquire <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=YOU+Broadband">YOU Broadband</a> for Rs 400 crore ($60 million), said a report in the Economic Times citing sources.
YOU Broadband India, owned by <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=TRG+Capital">TRG Capital</a>, has about 3,000 kilometres of optic fibre spread across 12 cities in India, including the key market of Mumbai.
The deal will help Vodafone provide high-speed data services to customers and help it stay prepared for Reliance&#8217;s delayed Jio launch, now expected by the end of 2016.
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Paytm is interested in a slice of Yatra.com, and Vodafone is buying YOU Broadband.

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