On Thursday, U.S. federal prosecutors officially charged six Fitbit employees, both current and former, in an indictment for possession of stolen trade secrets from Jawbone. According to the indictment, these six employees once worked for Jawbone and received these secrets when they left the company.

Remember when tracking your steps, your calories, even your heartbeat throughout the day was the thing? People even wore multiple devices while doing workouts, from cadence monitors to heart-rate tracking chest straps. Turns out people are growing tired of the quantified self. In fact, tech columnist Joshua Fruhlinger has discovered that going for a ride without any tech is a much more enjoyable experience.

In a battle of smartwatch flagships, we pit Fitbit's newest product, the Versa, against Apple's latest in smartwatch technology -- the Apple Watch Series 3. How well does the fitness-tracking giant's second attempt at a full-featured smartwatch fare against Apple's tried and true wearable?

Fitbit has announced that its latest foray into the smartwatch market is finding a nice measure of success, as the Fitbit Versa has sold 1 million units since debuting on April 16, easily outpacing its predecessor, the Ionic, and providing a serious competitor for the Apple Watch for the very first time.

According to the International Data Corporation, wearables' market growth has slowed down. Worldwide shipments of wearable devices grew 1.2 percent during the first quarter of 2018 -- with shipments reaching 25.1 million units. Of the top five wearable companies, Apple continues to take the lead.

These days, you're attached to your fitness tracker day and night, keeping it on your wrist while you eat, sleep, work out, and play. You may wear it when you wash dishes, water the lawn, take a shower, or even swim laps in the pool, and these are the waterproof Fitbits capable of handling it all.

Fitness wearable manufacturer Fitbit will partner with Google to use the search giant's Google Cloud services to collect and share medical data with doctors and hospitals, giving the company a more significant presence in the health care field as it competes directly with Apple.

Fitbit's Versa launched in April and while it's generated a lot of buzz, one of its best features is its easily interchangeable straps. To add a bit of flare to the wearable, Fitbit offers bands in leather and stainless steel, among other materials. These are the best Fitbit Versa bands available.

Fitbit is back at it again with the release of its Fitbit Ionic: Adidas edition to help athletes become the best runners they can be.

Fitbit has teamed up with Clue to create an app for the Ionic fitness tracker that allows women to track specific health related issues on the wearable device.

As the Fitbit team told Digital Trends, "Today, Fitbit has announced it is extending its support of the Pebble smartwatch ecosystem for six more months, to June 30, 2018."

This week, Fitbit Coach became available in the Microsoft Store, and users can download the app for Windows 10 and Xbox.

Fitbit has just invested for the first time in a start-up, dedicating more than $6 million into a company called Sano.

Fitbit has announced its first major update to the Fitbit OS, promising to provide Ionic users with a "smarter, more personalized experience."

The wearables market is on the rise, according to a new report from IDC. Who's at the top of the heap? Fitbit and Xiaomi.

A new startup called Opter Life is making a smart bamboo pendant called Pose to improve users' posture, sleep, and overall wellness.

Fitbits are already popular among health researchers, and now 10,000 of them will be handed to participants as part of a big research project.

Fitbit has announced the Fitbit Flyer, wireless in-ear headphones that are designed to pair with its new Ionic smartwatch.

The upcoming smartwatch from Fitbit boasts GPS, heart-rate monitoring, music streaming, and more — and it'll be available in October.

Last year, Fitbit shipped nearly twice the number of wearables of its next closest competitor, Xiaomi. Now, Xiaomi has ascended to No. 1.

Fitbit's dying, Jawbone's closing, Intel's ending its fitness-tracking group -- yet analysts predict the wearables market will double. How?

The Apple Watch Series 2 is largely considered to be the best smartwatch out there -- but it does have competition, like the Fitbit Blaze.

Adventure Races from Fitbit is a new social experiment meant to pit fellow users against one another in some mutually motivational activity.

Apple just keeps annexing more territory. Its latest conquest? The wearables industry. The Apple Watch beat out the Fitbit.

Fitness wearables are meant to keep you healthy, not send you to the hospital. That wasn't the case for a Milwaukee woman.

A new case series suggests that sleep trackers may induce sleep problems rather than improving sleep patterns.

Coin has announced it will terminate services for its wallet-slimming digital credit card at the end of February.

Fitbit cuts 110 jobs after a weak holiday season. Its acquisition of Pebble and Vector hint that smartwatches may be on the way.

Fitbit continues to innovate in the wearable fitness arena with its latest Fitbit software that adds social features to the core Fitbit app.

Fitbit has purchased smart smartwatch maker Vector in a move which sees it bolster its own smartwatch development division.

Fitbit is looking to launch its very own wearable app store "as soon as possible." This is according to company co-founder and CEO James Park

As part of the 'Works with Fitbit' program, the company has partnered with Habit, Peloton, and VirZOOM to make fitness goals easier to reach.

Fitness cycling innovator Peloton announced its first commercial-grade bike, taking its workouts routine out of the home and into gyms.

The fat lady has sung. At least, in the case of the Fitbit versus Jawbone battle arising from a claim by Fitbit over patent rights.