Category: TechCrunch

  • Banned Bytes

    I was there when the ban hit, staring at my phone as the TikTok icon disappeared, replaced by a blank space on my screen. I could almost hear the silent gasp of millions of users, just like me, suddenly cut off from a world that had become so integral to our lives. The ban wasn’t…

  • Valuation Vortex

    I stared at the screen, my heart pounding in my chest. Numbers. Just numbers. But these numbers represented something much bigger than I could ever fathom. $7.65 billion. That’s the worth of Ramp now, the spend management startup I had been a part of since its infancy. I, a mere data analyst, was now part…

  • The VerSe Conundrum

    It was the day everything changed, the day VerSe took over Magzter, a prominent rival to Apple News+. The world as I knew it was about to shift in ways I couldn’t even imagine. I was just an average tech enthusiast, living in the heart of India, but as the news of the acquisition spread,…

  • Orbiting Disaster

    I can still remember the day when Orbex received the funding. The day when everything changed. The day when the countdown to our doom began. The day when the world’s fate was sealed. I was just a bystander then, an outsider looking in, unaware of the cataclysmic events that were about to unfold. But now,…

  • Nimbus Rising

    I remember the day everything changed. The day the news came that 28 people were fired from Google for protesting Project Nimbus. I was one of them. I remember the cold, sterile words of the termination email, the shock, the anger. But most of all, I remember the fear. The fear of what Project Nimbus…

  • The Silence Protocol

    I remember the day the Nothing Ear was released. It was supposed to be just another tech upgrade, the latest earbuds to hit the market. But that was before everything changed. Before the world went silent. The news was buzzing with excitement, praising the sleek design and advanced features of the Nothing Ear. People lined…

  • The Trellis Effect

    I remember the first time I heard about Trellis Climate. It was a news feed that popped up on my screen while I was mindlessly scrolling through the digital world. A nonprofit trying to bridge the ‘commercial valley of death’ for climate tech. I was intrigued, but I didn’t know then that this simple news…

  • The Data Explorer’s Rebellion

    I can still remember the day I became an Explorer. The day I was chosen to validate the all-consuming data of Dataplor. I was excited, thrilled even. Little did I know, that this excitement was just the beginning of a journey that would plunge me into a world of secrets, lies, and a fight for…

  • Meltdown

    Today, the world was supposed to change. Magnus Metal promised it. They claimed to have created a technology as revolutionary as the wheel, as transformative as fire. As I stood outside the grand unveiling, the air heavy with anticipation and anxiety, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was about to go terribly wrong. The…

  • Carbon Shadows

    In our world, pollution had become the silent killer, an unseen enemy that crept into every corner of our lives. The buildings we lived in, the places we worked, they all contributed to the invisible menace. I was just a code writer, a nobody in the grand scheme of things, but when Nzero developed an…