Happy Friday!This week, our聽 team tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth about 1 billion euros, along with a handful of 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 we give you an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for the past week (聽to get this roundup in your inbox every Monday morning):

1) Polish e-commerce group went public; its shares shot up more than 60 percent on its trading debut, giving the company 聽in Europe鈥檚 biggest IPO so far this year.

2)聽Norwegian user-generated gamified e-learning startup !鈥攚hich has clocked 1.3 billion 鈥減articipating players鈥� since launching in 2013鈥攈as 聽in a private placement.

3)听尝耻虫别尘产辞耻谤驳-产补蝉别诲 , which claims to be Europe鈥檚 first and largest edtech VC, has announced , bringing assets under management to above $112 million.

4)聽The European Union aims to聽聽to help build up a homegrown cloud computing sector that could rival foreign corporations such as , and . There were 25 EU countries that signed a joint declaration on Thursday pledging public money to power up the cloud sector and establishing the “European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud,” a partnership geared toward facilitating such projects.

5)听, the U.K. tech company focused on commercial electric vehicles, has 聽from funds managed by .

6)聽Israel’s artificial intelligence-based machine monitoring solution provider announced 聽led by , and with the participation of , , , and .

7)聽U.S. tech giants are facing the threat of 聽after France and the Netherlands jointly issued a call for the bloc鈥檚 competition authorities to take pre-emptive measures as they prepare sweeping legislation to curb the companies鈥� market power.

8)聽France will聽聽this year after international talks failed to agree on a global levy, its finance minister said this week, risking a trade war.

9)聽German business transformation software maker聽. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but co-founder and CEO said the deal was over $100 million.

10)聽More than 1,000 U.K. startups have , according to new research released this week by and .

Podcast:

: Mealworms, unicorns, crowdfunding, and state of Spanish tech with Jaime Novoa

Bonus link: