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And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 🔋 Swedish battery maker Northvolt is raising $600 million from Volkswagen, Daniel Ek, Goldman Sachs and others 🚖 Uber granted 18-month London license as judge overturns ban 🚕 Uber weighs purchase of BMW-Daimler ride-hailing venture 🎙 Interview with Jonathan Keane , formerly of Fora.ie and Tech.eu We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast! Please...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 🌜 Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek will pour €1 billion of his own money into European “moonshots” 📈 TransferWise grows annual revenue 70% to hit more than €330 million (and €23 million+ in net profit) 🎙 An interview with Frédéric Mazzella , co-founder of BlaBlaCar and co-president at France Digitale We hope you enjoy(ed) the podcast!...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 💲 Nvidia is buying Arm — or is it? Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm , bringing together two chip giants Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Hermann Hauser on BBC Radio 4 (around 01:18:00) 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 Klarna is a decacorn now Klarna announces $650M funding round to further accele...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 🏘️ Massive deal in Madrid: EQT buys online real estate classifieds platform idealista for €1.3 billion EQT agrees €1.3bn deal for Spanish property site Idealista 💳 Dutch payments startup Mollie raises $106M at $1B+ valuation 💶 Klarna talks to investors on raising funds at over $10 billion valuation ⚖️ Facebook to be forced to stop sending EU...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 🚀 Rocket Internet to delist from stock market and focus on long-term strategy The humbling of Europe’s most-hyped startup incubator: Rocket Internet Rocket Internet has made a $3.1 billion damp squib As it delists, Rocket Internet’s ill-fated experiment with public markets is over Jumia: The e-commerce start-up that fell from grace 💰 German c...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 📱 Fairphone’s new flagship, the 3+, costs just €70 as a modular upgrade 🗠 The Hut Group set for biggest British IPO in years 💸 SoftBank-backed car website Auto1 is said to invite IPO pitches 🛒 Delivery Hero buys InstaShop, valued at $360 million , to expand through the Middle East 📂 UK immersive music startup MelodyVR buys Napster for $70 m...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 🚂 Omio takes $100 million to shuttle through the coronavirus crisis 🤬 German travel startups aren't happy with Google Inside Google’s feud with the battered online travel industry Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data 🎮 Tencent takes minority stake in French casual games maker Voodoo 💳 Wirecard UK [may] be bo...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: 📱 Google, Nokia, Qualcomm are investors in $230 million Series A2 for Finnish phone maker, HMD Global 🍎 Facebook, Microsoft gripes with Apple’s App Store on EU’s antitrust radar 🇫🇷 TikTok faces French data probe , adding to EU-wide scrutiny 💳 Revolut racks up losses as hiring spree offsets revenue 🇬🇧 Holvi is leaving the UK – when and wh...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: Zynga buys another Turkish gaming company Zynga Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Istanbul-based Rollic, One of the Fastest Growing Hyper-Casual Mobile Game Companies (PR) Zynga acquires hypercasual mobile company Rollic for $168m (GamesIndustry.biz) Zynga is acquiring hypercasual mobile game firm Rollic for at least $168 million (Venturebea...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: Telegram vs. Apple Apple Faces EU Antitrust Complaint from Messaging App Telegram (Bloomberg Law) Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store (Ars Technica) Durov’s Telegram channel Facebook vs. the EU Irony isn’t dead… Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data (The Register) Facebook...

eBay sells it classified biz to Norway’s Adevinta Adevinta signs agreement to acquire eBay Classifieds Group (Adevinta) One of the oldest businesses on the internet just got sold for $9 billion (CNN Business) eBay sells its classifieds business to Adevinta for $9.2 billion (Venturebeat) e-mobility news from across Europe Paris snubs Bird in highly competitive electric scooter competition (The Verg...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: Apple and Ireland mark victory on €13 billion tax bill appeal  Commission loses out in Apple-Ireland tax battle, announces tax abuse clampdown (Euractiv) Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned (BBC News) Apple just won a mammoth victory over Europe’s ‘tax lady.’ But the fight is far from over (Fortune) Privacy Shield: invalidated US-EU Priva...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: Opera acquires Fjord Bank Opera announces investment in and agreement to acquire Fjord Bank (press release) Norwegian browser maker Opera ventures further into fintech with acquisition of Fjord Bank (Tech.eu) Delivery Hero backs sustainability tech startups Delivery Hero continues to strengthen its green program by investing in sustainable...

And here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: UK regulators take aim at Apple’s search engine deal with Google UK regulators call Google, Apple search engine deal a ‘barrier’ to competition (ZDNet) U.K. Regulator Takes Aim At Apple And Google’s Billion-Pound Search Deal (Forbes) Germany’s solarisBank raises funding SolarisBank Snaps Up €60m Funding For BaaS-Ic Instinct (Fintech Direct)...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode: Wirecard’s wild ride down ‘The Enron of Germany’: Wirecard scandal casts a shadow on corporate governance (CNBC) EY prepares for backlash over Wirecard scandal (Financial Times) Germany to sever ties with accounting watchdog after Wirecard scandal (Reuters) Germany’s top court rules against Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ Germany’s highest court or...

EU vs. Apple EU launches antitrust probes into Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay (CNBC) Opinion: Apple deserves the EU antitrust scrutiny it’s getting (Bloomberg) Opinion: Apple’s antitrust issues won’t go away; the company should act now (9to5Mac) Wirecard’s missing billions Wirecard, a Payments Firm, Is Rocked by a Report of a Missing $2 Billion (The New York Times) Wirecard’s disappearing $2.1 bi...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode. 🛒 Amazon's struggle with the EU Amazon to face antitrust charges from EU over treatment of third-party sellers [paywalled] Speech of Margrethe Vestager at the College of Europe, Bruges campus Tech.eu Podcast #127 : EU vs. Amazon, future of alternative meats in Europe, is brain drain real, interview with Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon, and more 🎙 Mar...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode. 🍕 The battle for Grubhub 'Nobody's making money in this business': Uber's CEO defends a possible GrubHub merger amid criticism of the reported merger talks Uber-Grubhub deal hinges on breakup fee after narrowing price gap Uber could lose its Grubhub deal to Just Eat or Delivery Hero Grubhub jumps on deal inquiries from Just Eat, Delivery Hero...

Here are the notes and links to the profiles of this week’s panellists. 🎙 Margrethe Vestager , European Commissioner for Competition and Executive Vice President, Europe Fit for the Digital Age 🎙 Gerd Leonhard , a futurist from The Futures Agency 🎙 Emilija Stojmenova Duh , head of Slovenia's digital innovation hub 4PDIH We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s episode. 🛴 E-scooter share co Wind to offer deliveries 🚕 Exclusive: BMW and Daimler now offer e-scooters with Free Now 🚗 BlaBlaCar partners with scooter startup Voi to launch new BlaBla Ride app 🎙 Nicolas Brusson , co-founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions...

Here are the notes and links to the profiles of this week’s panellists. 🎙 Claire Munck , CEO at Be Angels and board member of Business Angels Europe 🎙 Philippe Collombel , managing partner of Partech 🎙 Inka Mero , founder and managing partner of Voima Ventures 🎙 Robin Wauters , founding editor of Tech.eu 🎙 Dmitry Kalaev , head of acceleration at IIDF.vc We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel f...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews. 🎙 Roni Bonjack , head of developer programs — EMEA at Facebook Startup resources for coronavirus (COVID-19) How startups are pivoting during the pandemic 🎙 Cristina Vila Vives , founder and CEO at Cledara Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and M12 name Cledara top 5 enterprise software startup We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to...

Here are the links to the profiles of this week’s panellists. 🎙 Karolina Korth , head of strategy for South-West Europe at Siemens Mobility 🎙 Joris Jeelof , chief commercial officer at RoadEO 🎙 Linus Frank , co-founder of Vesputi 🎙 Antonio Jara , CEO at HOPU We hope you enjoy this special format — please let us know what you think! Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinion...

Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews. 🎙 Matthew Goldstein , partner at M12 🎙 Pascal Kemps and Johan Van den Bulck , co-founders of TeRoCo We hope you enjoy the podcast! Please feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions to podcast@tech.eu or tweet at @tech_eu and @adegeler .

Here are the links to the profiles of this week’s panellists. 🎙 Katerina Borunska , policy officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 🎙 Kat Borlongan , director at La French Tech 🎙 Olga Barreto Goncalves , chief startup instigator at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia 🎙 Nils Beers , CEO at Techleap (the Netherlands) We hope you enjoy this speci...