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When you have Mike Bloomberg money, there is no shortage of ways to spend it. And running for president opens up a whole new world of blowing through cash. Bloomberg announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president earlier this week along wit…

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Google employee activist says shes been fired Employee activist…

November 22 Another one for the Google graveyard November 6 Maybe the last nail in the coffin for phone-based VR October 4 It honestly deserves a full-on crypt August 28 The recruitin…

In a video (above) Android product manager Arvind Chandrababu said the feature makes it easy to accomplish tasks with just a few clicks while your phone is charging. "Now with one tap, you can set the alarm, you can look at what time your first meeting is the…

An internal memo sent this afternoon states that four Google staffers have been fired for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies. While a company spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters specifically, she confirmed the authe…

Twitter says the vulnerability isn't within Twitter itself, "but rather the lack of isolation between SDKs within an application." The company adds that it doesn't have evidence to suggest someone exploited the issue to take control of anyone's account -- but…

For most parents, sharing a nighttime story with their child is a precious and important time, but sometimes the tucking-in duties fall to baby sitters and other family members. The latest Google Home update adds a new My Storytime feature that lets parents r…

A few weeks ago, we were talking about whether companies like Facebook and Twitter should ban all paid political advertising from their platforms. Now the debate has narrowed to a secondary question: Where political ads are allowed, should their micro-targeti…

Android users can now have Google Assistant buy movie tickets and reserve seats for them, thanks to a new Google Duplex feature that makes it possible for the AI to access and navigate Chrome webpages on its ownmuch like how the Duplex AI allows Google Assist…

Google announces it will restrict political ad targeting