[bojan]

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

[chgs]

That’s of course the reason these types of companies are American - Americans are rich and can buy out foreign companies which are successful.

[nickff]

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