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especially as EU regulators are generally skeptical of the business practices of large US multinationals

The singling out of US multinationals is a bit of a myth, it's just more visible to us tech people and since the revenues are larger, the fines also tend to be larger. But they also fined Daimler, Scania, DAF, Philips, Volvo, Deutsche Bank, etc.

http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/EU-GOOGLE-...