Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 29, 2018

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 29, 2018.

Most popular stories on GeekWire
DocuSign acquires SpringCM for $220M to continue evolution beyond electronic signatures

DocuSign said it has agreed to acquire SpringCM, a Chicago-based cloud document generation and contract management company, for $220 million in cash. … Read More

Ofo officially shutting down in Seattle after $250K bikeshare fee passes

Ofo confirmed it will shut down operation in Seattle Monday afternoon after the city adopted a new $250,000 annual fee for bikeshare operators. … Read More

Amazon canceling Echo Spot orders after Alexa device was briefly offered for free

This story has been updated with comments from Amazon. … Read More

Brace yourself for a loud Seafair Weekend: Fat Albert rejoins the Blue Angels air show

Hey, hey, hey … it’s Fat Albert, in the skies over Seattle: We’re not talking about the jumbo-sized character created by comedian Bill Cosby back in the day, but the C-130T transport plane that’s back in its place among the Navy’s Blue Angels for Seafair Weekend’s Boeing Air Show. … Read More

As serverless computing starts to take shape, cloud tech experts sketch out its future

When you look back at decades of computing history, the arc bends toward abstraction: the process of making it easier and easier for people to put their imagination into code by removing the complexity of actually getting software to run on hardware. … Read More

Sales automation company Outreach buys Sales Hacker media startup in its first-ever acquisition

Outreach, just a couple months removed from …read more

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GeekWire 200 update: It’s the era of giant funding… Rover employees celebrate with CEO Aaron Easterly after his CEO of the Year award win at the 2016 GeekWire Awards. Rover received a big investment in recent months. (GeekWire Photo)It's a good time to be raising venture capital in the Pacific Northwest, and startups on the GeekWire 200 list are benefitting nicely from that trend. Investors poured $793 million into Seattle area startups during the second quarter — the highest since 2015, and the second-largest amount since the dot-com era of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Pacific Northwest still ranks behind regions such as Northern and Southern California,…
The blink-and-you'll-miss-it speed at which social media moves means you're unlikely to remember a tweet you sent in the last 48 hours, let alone one you sent two years ago. But if your account is public, it's time to dig up the time capsule and start sorting through, or, rather, deleting those messages you've already wiped from your memory.Events in the last few weeks have made it clear that this approach is not extreme. Rather, it's an important protective measure against trolls who are using old tweets as weapons against the people they view as their enemies. In late July,…
AMC is developing a sci-fi show based on Ken Liu’s… Ken Liu is one of science fiction's most celebrated writers working today. In addition to translating Cixin Liu's acclaimed Three Body Problem and Death's End, he's also earned numerous awards, most significantly for his short story, “The Paper Menagerie”. Now, it looks as though his works could reach a new audience: AMC is developing series based on his works called Pantheon, according to Deadline. If it's produced, Pantheon will be an animated show “based on a series of short stories by [Liu] about uploaded intelligence,” reports Deadline. Craig Silverstein, who created and produced AMC's American revolution drama Turn, will serve…

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