Monthly Archives: August 2022

China’s social media users were threatening war over Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Now they’re talking about sand.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi poses for a photo with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday during her visit to Taiwan. Handout/Getty Images Chinese social media was flooded with war fervor ahead of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Social media users made threats against Pelosi and predicted a swift takeover of the island. With the chances…

Uber tie-up with Omio adds train & coach booking to app — starting with UK

Uber is testing adding train and coach travel to its app in the UK so customers can book longer distance ground travel via a fully integrated tie-up with Berlin-based multimodal travel platform, Omio. The latter has built up its own consumer facing apps for booking intercity and international travel, across a wide variety of supported…