Wearable-device maker Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from rival Jawbone, a judge for the US International Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday. Judge Dee Lord, who issued the ruling, concluded that no violation of the Tariff Act occurred because “no party has been shown to have misappropriated any trade secret,” according to Reuters. Had a …

The song is over for Samsung’s Milk Music. The Korean electronics giant said Monday the music-streaming app for users of its Galaxy smartphones will shut down in the US on September 22. The app was launched in 2014 with music provided by internet radio service Slacker Radio, but it failed to gain traction against the likes of Spotify and Apple …

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon might launch a pair of new music services, report… 1:17 Amazon wants to launch a music subscription service that would be half the cost of rival services and run only on its Echo smart speaker, according to Recode. The service would offer unlimited, ad-free music for $4 to $5 a month, half what Spotify and …

Now playing: Watch this: McDonald’s discontinued fitness tracker tested: Not as… 1:18 McDonald’s has pulled its Step It activity tracker from kids’ Happy Meals. McDonalad’s McDonald’s experiment with fitness trackers for kids didn’t last long. Just days after McDonald’s began offering its Step It Activity Band to kids, the fast-food chain has removed the toy from Happy Meals amid reports …

Apple has inked a music partnership with Cash Money Records, a record label focusing on rap and hip-hop. The partnership was announced over the weekend by Bryan “Birdman” Williams, the record label’s co-founder, in an Instagram post that showed him posing with Apple music executive Larry Jackson. “It’s official…Cash Money makes a power move with Apple Music,” Birdman’s Instagram post …

Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Hangouts on Air heading to YouTube 1:28 Google+ Hangouts On Air is going away, but its broadcast feature isn’t going far. The web giant said Monday its Hangouts group video chat feature will be discontinued on September 12 in favor of its YouTube Live feature. Google said that video events scheduled to occur after that …

LG hopes the path to phone buyers’ wallets is through their ears. The Korean electronics giant on Wednesday said the V20 — its next-generation flagship phone — will feature a 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC (digital to analog converter) in what LG called an industry first. LG said the DAC produces a crisp and clear sound reproduction that reduces ambient noise …

Twitter cannot be held responsible for ISIS’ activities on the social network, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in dismissing a lawsuit that accused the company of providing material support to the militant Islamic group. The lawsuit, which was filed in January by the widow of an American killed in Jordan, accused Twitter of knowingly permitting ISIS to use its network …

Sales of illicit drugs on the dark web have tripled since the feds shut down the online illegal-drug marketplace Silk Road in 2013, according to new research released this week. At the same time, revenue from online sales of heroin, cocaine and marijuana has doubled, according to a RAND study (PDF) conducted by the University of Manchester and University of …

iPad users will finally get split-screen multitasking on iOS versions of Docs, Sheets and Slides, thanks to an update Google released Wednesday. The update allows users of recent models of the iPad Pro and the iPad Air 2 running iOS 9 to edit a document or spreadsheet while running another app at the same time on the other side on …