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Re:Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law by jakob_endler on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:21PM (#43773831)
thats only kinda right. The DMA does include booking.com as a gatekeeper, which is european. But most gatekeepers (except booking and tiktok) are US-based
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Re:Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law by Aloisius on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:21PM (#43774427)
Booking Holdings is American. They bought booking.com in 2005.
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Re:Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law by bojan on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:27PM (#43774504)
Booking.com was European, is not any more. It is now a subsidiary of Booking Holding (formerly Priceline), based in Connecticut.
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Re:Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law by chgs on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:14PM (#43776193)
That’s of course the reason these types of companies are American - Americans are rich and can buy out foreign companies which are successful.
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Re:Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law by nickff on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:27PM (#43777785)
There are plenty of EU companies that buy into new markets or opportunities, they just fall outside of these laws; Siemens is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
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