[walkingthisquai]

Well... Though I agree with you in principle, the DMA does target specific gatekeeper companies and the criteria for these were set conveniently to ensure no EU company is regulated by it. So I can see their point a little

[johnmaguire]

Isn't the question whether they were set because they were US companies, or because they are dominant gatekeepers on the Internet?

5/7 designated gatekeepers are US companies: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

[dwaite]

I thought Booking Holdings Inc was also American.

There are zero European companies, including Spotify - the #1 music streaming marketplace in the world.

[makeitdouble]

I'd argue this style of concentrating power under a single giant company is mostly American style.

EU companies tend to keep group entities separate instead of running for absolute synergies. For instance the AOL-Time-Warner-Direct-Dish kind of merger is pretty much unheard of.

[jakob_endler]

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

[Aloisius]

Booking Holdings is American. They bought booking.com in 2005.

[bojan]

Booking.com was European, is not any more. It is now a subsidiary of Booking Holding (formerly Priceline), based in Connecticut.