Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions, two IPOs and 39 tech funding deals totalling €139 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 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 Google has in Android antitrust case brought by local rival Yandex. 1) reached a settlement with Russia’s regulator Dutch startup . The Amsterdam-based startup, which creates tools for testing and deploying code, had raised nearly $8 million in funding since its founding in 2012. 2) Wercker has been acquired by Oracle for an undisclosed sum Spotify cleared another hurdle in the route to its IPO this week when , the global digital rights agency for the independent label sector. 3) it announced a multi-year licensing deal with Merlin Microsoft is lining up a bid to , according to a report in local Israeli business publication the Calcalist. 4) buy Israeli cloud-monitoring and analytics startup Cloudyn in a deal thought to be worth between $50-$70 million Swedish insurtech company BIMA, which brings mobile micro-insurance to underserved families in emerging markets, . 5) has raised $16.8 million EU antitrust regulators have of the French security solutions provider Morpho by the US private equity firm Advent International. The deal is said to be worth €2.4 billion. 6) approved the acquisition Venture capital firm to invest in tech companies at Series A rounds. This brings its total assets under management to $350 million. 7) Nauta Capital has closed its latest fund at $170 million The Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor announced this week that by mid-2018. 8) Twitter has agreed to the transfer its Russian users’ data to Russian servers Dome9 Security, an Israeli company specialising in cloud-based cybersecurity, has . 9) raised $16.5 million in Series C funding Microsoft announced that in favour of its new app, To-Do. 10) it will shut down Wunderlist (Project Syndicate) Bonus link: Europe’s Surprising Tech Success
