Somehow, though, the fax machine has managed to survive. ... DocuSign, has eight million customers and has overseen the signing of more than 70 million documents since 2004.

Slate tech columnist Farhad Manjoo argued recently that the fax machine lives on largely because of our attachment to the written signature. Manjoo’s observation piqued the Explainer’s ...

German firms are getting more on board with new technologies, but still largely hold onto the out-dated fax machine, according to the survey by German digital association Bitkom released this week ...