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Berlin-based Delivery Hero plans to sell 68.2M shares of Deliveroo, or a ~4.5% stake worth ~£83M, and does not expect to hold any Deliveroo stock afterwards

Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times :

Brisbane-based edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute summaries of non-fiction books, and raised $30M from Insight Partners

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition …

Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, Germany, working with NXP, Bosch, Infineon, and the German government

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) … Tweets: @deutschjill Tweets: Jillian Deutsch / @deutschjill : TSMC's German plant could...

Istanbul-based delivery startup Getir closes its acquisition of Berlin-based rival Gorillas, valuing the group at $10B, and sources say Gorillas alone at ~$1.2B

Combined group worth $10bn represents a fall in valuation as investors turn against lossmaking tech start-ups

Sources: Istanbul-based delivery startup Getir is in advanced talks to acquire Berlin-based Gorillas in a cash and equity deal; Getir raised $768M in March

Bloomberg :

Berlin-based grocery delivery startup Flink acquires Paris-based Cajoo; sources: Flink acquired Cajoo for €90M-€100M and raised €60M-€70M at a €4.8B valuation

Milan-based payments giant Nexi acquires Berlin-based Orderbird, which provides point of sale products to hospitality businesses, sources say for €130M to €140M

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Berlin-based Tier Mobility acquires Spin, Ford's e-scooter unit, in an all-stock deal, for an undisclosed price; Ford acquired Spin in November 2018 for $100M

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :

Sources: Amazon and US delivery app Gopuff explored competing takeover bids for Berlin-based grocery delivery app Flink, which raised $240M last week

Bloomberg :

Snap says it acquired Berlin-based Fit Analytics, which helps shoppers find the right-sized apparel and footwear online and works with 18K retailers

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