The Apple Card might be released as soon as the first half of August. The Cupertino, California company hasn’t said much about the credit card it’s creating with Goldman Sachs since its March reveal, but Bloomberg reported Friday that it’s weeks away. The report suggests the project is on schedule for the summer release date, …

Australia’s antitrust watchdog wants to create a branch dedicated to investigating the impact on competition by Facebook and Google. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report follows an 18-month probe and comes just after the US Federal Trade Commission slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over privacy issues. Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told reporters that the fine revealed how …

Dish has made a deal with T-Mobile and Sprint to pay $5 billion for their wireless assets, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources. This would apparently set the stage for the Justice Department to give T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion merger with Sprint the thumbs-up as early as Thursday, something the Wall Street Journal reports it is prepared to do. The TV …

Huawei gutted its US research branch Monday in response to the Commerce Department blacklisting’s impact on its business. More than 600 of the 850 researchers at the controversial Chinese phonemaker‘s Futurewei subsidiary lost their jobs, the company confirmed via email. The research unit, which has offices in California, Illinois, Texas and Washington State, recorded $510 million in operating costs last …

Tech executives will apparently gather at the White House on Monday to discuss the US ban on Huawei. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will meet leaders from software and chip companies, according to Reuters, which cited anonymous sources. Google and Micron will attend, and Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom have been invited, the report noted. …

Huawei reportedly wants to keep using Google’s Android operating system in its phones instead of jumping to its self-developed Hongmeng system. Company senior vice president Catherine Chen told reporters in Brussels on Thursday that the Hongmeng OS isn’t even designed for phones, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Chen apparently said Hongmeng is for industrial use, noting that it …

Dutch airline KLM’s Indian branch apologized on Wednesday for tweeting about the impact of your choice of seat on your chances of surviving a plane crash. The since-deleted initial tweet cheerily informed us that “Seats at the back of a plane are the safest!” before jumping into death rates. “According to data studies by Time, the fatality rate for the …

Google Maps on Tuesday started showing where your nearest bike-sharing station is, along with real-time information on the number of bikes available, in 24 cities around the world on iOS and Android. The feature,whic has been available in New York for the past year, also tells you if there’s an empty space at a station near your destination. The app …

Pokemon Go‘s dull trainer battles were all about tapping the screen to power up your Charged Attacks, but developer Niantic has spiced things up with its latest update. Now you’ll have to do some Fruit Ninja-style swiping to charge them, which sounds much more engaging.  The mobile megahit’s appraisal system has been improved, too — you’ll be able to see …

Huawei is planning major layoffs at its US research labs as it struggles under the weight of the Commerce Department blacklisting, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The embattled Chinese telecom’s Futurewei R&D subsidiary employs about 850 people in Texas, California and Washington state. The layoffs may number in the hundreds, according to the Journal, which cited anonymous sources. A …