Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 12 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 86 funding deals (totalling €280 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Like every week, we listed every single one of them in , along with interesting news regarding fledgling European startups, tech investors old and new, a number of good reads published elsewhere, government and policy news, as well as an overview of interesting lists, facts and figures from a wide variety of sources. our free weekly newsletter You can subscribe to below to receive all this information in your inbox every Friday afternoon for free, but here’s : our newsletter an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week Cork, Ireland-based tech startup InfiniLED has been . 1) acquired by the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus Rocket Internet-backed Wimdu is , accommodation booking platform 9flats, in hopes to rival Airbnb in Europe. 2) merging with its competitor Daniel Ek has to become both Chairman and CEO — which means Spotify likely won’t IPO in Sweden. 3) replaced Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon France has , which includes changes to laws surrounding net neutrality, data portability, video games, and copyright. 4) adopted a ‘Digital Republic Act’ Navya, a Lyon, France-based company that builds electric, self-driving shuttles for use in urban areas, airports, amusement parks and whatnot, has . 5) raised €30 million Swedish media group MTG has invested in Hamburg-based online game developer, InnoGames, at a €260 million valuation. 6) acquiring a 35% stake in the company Estonian Funderbeam, a blockchain-based startup for trading in growth companies, from Draper Associates, Thomson Reuters, and IQ Capital. 7) has raised $2.6 million Founders Factory, the London-based accelerator/incubator founded by Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox and Jim Meyerle, have from Chinese private equity holding CSC Group. 8) partnered with and received a ‘multimillion pound’ investment Uber will in 2017 using bicycle courier services. 9) offer takeaway meal delivery services in Berlin The crisis at Ericsson deepened on Wednesday when the world’s biggest maker of mobile network equipment and tumbling sales. 10) reported a 94% plunge in quarterly operating profit Early-stage investment firm Seedcamp is having a stellar year so far, which prompted it to , which it raised all the way back in 2007. Bonus link: publicly share (excellent) performance data for its first fund
