This week, Tech.eu tracked 9 technology M&A transactions and 96 tech funding deals totalling €460 million (about $491 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
1) Dutch online supermarket Picnic has raised €100 million in funding from NPM Capital, De Hoge Dennen, Hoyberg, and Finci. Picnic was founded 18 months ago and provides free online grocery delivery via electric vehicles.
2) The European Commission is drafting several options to change rules to allow criminal and antiterror investigators greater access to evidence of criminal activity stored in clouds, Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said this week in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
3) Square, the payments company headed up by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has finally hit the UK.
4) Uber will…