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This week, our聽 team tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over 2 billion euros ($2.24 billion), as well as 15 M&A transactions, rumors and related news stories across Europe, including Russia, Israel and Turkey.

Meanwhile, here鈥檚 an overview of the 10 biggest European-area tech news items for this week (聽to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):

1)聽Just Eat Takeaway.com聽聽in a deal that creates one of the world鈥檚 largest meal-delivery companies as the coronavirus pandemic drives a surge in orders.

2)聽Online supermarket聽 of fresh equity and debt as it seeks to capitalize on a surge of interest during the coronavirus crisis.

3)听, a German startup that鈥檚 making an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing passenger jet聽, the largest investor in after its billionaire owner Elon Musk. Lilium鈥檚 new funding came with a post-money valuation of more than $1 billion, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg.

4)聽The European Union鈥檚 antitrust watchdog is聽聽over its treatment of third-party sellers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The charges could come as early as next week or the week after and would focus on 鈥檚 dual role as both a seller and operator of the marketplace, according to the Journal.

5) Meanwhile, the U.K.鈥檚 watchdog on Friday announced it has , the popular GIF repository and search engine.

6)听, a startup from Sweden that has built a platform to make it as easy for merchants to accept bank transfers as it is to take card payments to complete online transactions,听.

7)聽Belgian fintech startup聽, according to . The round was led by with participation from and .

8) A group of prominent German tech entrepreneurs–former Rocket Internet execs–has .

9)听 has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app聽. The U.K. tech firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients鈥� consultations.

10)聽Israeli e-commerce startup聽聽from international investment fund , a person with knowledge of the matter told Calcalist.

Podcast(s):

We take a look at the role that European startups may play in the food delivery industry in the U.S. Later in the show, you鈥檒l hear an interview with Antti-Jussi Suominen, CEO at the Finnish fintech startup Holvi.
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Bonus link(s):

The World Economic Forum this week聽 titled .