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 March 25, 2018.
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Thanks, Trump: Amazon stock tumbles and Jeff Bezos loses $5.2B off his net worth in one day
If you’re eyeballing the real-time list of the world’s billionaires, and holding out hope that you might someday catch Jeff Bezos, well, your chances got a little bit of a boost on Wednesday. … Read More
Smartsheet files for IPO, aims to become Seattle region’s next public company
Smartsheet is getting ready to go public. … Read More
Trucking startup Convoy partners with Goodyear, surpasses 225 employees and 100K trucks
Convoy is trucking along. The Seattle startup now has more than 225 employees and 100,000 truckers on its platform that matches truck drivers with available jobs. … Read More
Elon Musk takes the wraps off the Boring Company’s next product line: bricks
What do you do for an encore after you’ve sold 20,000 flamethrowers? … Read More
Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg
Terry Myerson, the Windows chief who worked to bring Microsoft’s operating system into a new era of cloud computing and devices, will be leaving as part of a major engineering reorganization announced this morning by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. … Read More
Bill Gates and teen daughter share love for author John Green and pen joint review of his latest book
Phoebe Gates, the 15-year-old daughter of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, has apparently inherited her father’s love of reading. … Read More
How Funko pops out a Pop! Inside the process of creating collectible figures, from idea to product
Alana and Marko are interspecies lovers. They erupt onto comic book panels amid scenes of childbirth, intense battles, and robot sex. … Read More
GoDaddy signs multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services for ‘vast majority’ of its computing infrastructure
Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy has signed a multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services to migrate most of its computing infrastructure on to AWS, the two companies plan to announce Wednesday. … Read More
Digital signature giant DocuSign files for IPO, seeks $100M in tech industry’s latest public offering
Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company, joining a growing list of technology companies looking to start trading on Wall Street this year. … Read More
President Trump reportedly ‘obsessed’ with regulating Amazon, wants to clip Jeff Bezos’ wings
Everywhere you turn these days, there’s chatter about government regulation of Facebook. … Read More