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This week, our 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’s an overview of the 10 biggest European-area tech news items for this week ( to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):
1) Just Eat Takeaway.com  in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest meal-delivery companies as the coronavirus pandemic drives a surge in orders.
2) Online supermarket of fresh equity and debt as it seeks to capitalize on a surge of interest during the coronavirus crisis.
3)Ìý, a German startup that’s making an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing passenger jet , the largest investor in after its billionaire owner Elon Musk. Lilium’s new funding came with a post-money valuation of more than $1 billion, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg.
4) The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is  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 ’s dual role as both a seller and operator of the marketplace, according to the Journal.
5) Meanwhile, the U.K.’s watchdog on Friday announced it has , the popular GIF repository and search engine.
6)Ìý, 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,Ìý.
7) Belgian fintech startup , 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)Ìý has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app . 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’ consultations.
10) Israeli e-commerce startup  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’ll 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 titled .
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