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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:44PM (#15749804)
"Germany's" FlixBus is largely owned by American private equity firms.

Good ol' all-American Greyhound is owned by one of the biggest UK public transport companies, FirstGroup. (Megabus is owned by another, Stagecoach.)

Meanwhile, over in the UK, Stagecoach and First duke it out for rail franchises with the nationalised rail companies of Europe.

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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by Clubber on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:58PM (#15750529)
Globalization makes me crazy.

Budweiser anyone? It says American on the can.

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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by ZenoArrow on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:49PM (#15751402)
Budweiser is an interesting example of an American beer, as the original Budweiser beer was from the Czech Republic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by Clubber on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:16PM (#15751627)
Budweiser isn't even an American company anymore. Globalization: who made this piss water? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev

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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by sergers on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:50PM (#15754336)
They also bought Molson Coors, "Canadian" beer... With the I am Canada slogan lol
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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by komali2 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:34PM (#15752256)
Haha yea I just learned that in the article.

Seems like it's really hard to get American citizens or companies to care about public transit. We only have outliers like Musk, and I'm not even sure that tunnel thing he's building can be considered "public" transit.

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Re:Germany's FlixBus to Take on Greyhound in the United States by stannol on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:22PM (#15752178)
It’s not publicly known who owns how much of FlixBus. It has been reported that General Atlantic holds 35%, but Daimler, Holtzbrinck and the founders most likely hold a significant amount as well.
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