Happy Friday!

This week, our听 team tracked almost 70 tech funding deals worth over 1 billion euros, along with 15 M&A transactions, rumors, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia, Israel and Turkey. As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a handy list sent in our Friday afternoon roundup newsletter (note: the full list is for 听辞苍濒测).

Recently, we also started publishing a daily roundup of deals and news stories that caught our attention. Keeping you updated on all things EU tech is our priority.

Today, instead of a daily roundup we give you an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for the past week (听to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):

1)听Another European fintech giant is born: Italian payment technology service providers and have reached an agreement . After nearly two years of negotiations, the all-share deal will see Nexi receive 70 percent of the merged company and SIA around 30 percent, the partners said, adding that the new group will have a market valuation of around 15 billion euros based on current prices.

2) , a French startup farming insects to improve food production,听, bringing its Series C round to $372 million with 鈥檚 tech funding initiative joining the round.

3) Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform has become Europe鈥檚 newest unicorn after announcing听听at a valuation of $3 billion.

4)听Japanese electronics giant 听听Swiss banking software developer for $2.2 billion.

5)听British holographic tech company has 听from several automotive companies for its tech used in augmented reality. Among the investors in the Series B round are , General Motors鈥� , , the venture arm of SAIC Motors, and Van Tuyl Companies.

6)听European crowdfunding leaders听 and have to create “one of the world鈥檚 largest private equity marketplaces.” The combined company will be worth 拢140 million.

7)听The European Parliament plenary approved the deal struck with the Council last December on听听and protect investors. The new rules aim to help crowdfunding services to function smoothly in the internal market and to foster cross-border business funding in the EU, by providing for听.

8)听A French appeals court has confirmed the country鈥檚 antitrust authority鈥檚 order to to听.

9)听 has decided听听requiring social media companies to establish a formal presence in the country, setting the stage for a showdown with the government of Erdogan that could culminate in the platform being blocked.

10)听, Europe’s largest technology conference, will be听听this year, as the coronavirus pandemic forces scores of major events to go digital.

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