Amazon shareholders vote down record 15 proposals at annual meeting

Mobile gas startup lands $125M | Inside the first Amazon Style store ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: Did you miss the Pacific Northwest's annual startup and technology awards?: [Watch the 2022 GeekWire Awards on-demand!]( TODAY'S TOP STORIES Amazon shareholders vote down record 15 proposals: Faced with a barrage of proposals on issues ranging from unionization to the environment, a majority of Amazon shareholders followed the lead of the company’s board and rejected an unprecedented slate of issues up for consideration on Wednesday morning at Amazon’s annual meeting. They also approved the board’s proposal for a 20:1 stock split. [Read more](. More from the meeting: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy started his remarks by commenting on the school shooting in Texas. “I can only hope that we come together as a country to find a way to stop this kind of tragic violence in the future,” he said. Amazon’s next ‘dreamy’ business: In 2014, Jeff Bezos wrote that Amazon had three pillars: Marketplace, Prime, and AWS. [Has it found a fourth?]( Remote collaboration in Teams apps: Microsoft's new technology, dubbed Live Share, lets users interact with apps simultaneously during Microsoft Teams meetings. It was [shown to software developers for the first time]( at the company’s Build developer conference. More from Build: [New AI dev tools turn pictures into apps, summarize text, and write code automatically]( Inside the first Amazon Style store: The e-commerce giant is making its first foray into brick-and-mortar apparel retail with a location in the Los Angeles area. Our partners at dot.LA [got a sneak peek inside](. Mobile gas startup lands $125M: Booster Fuels, which got its start in Seattle, [helps deliver fuel directly to vehicles]( used by fleet operators including Amazon, UPS, and Imperfect Foods. Crypto tax startup raises $15M: ZenLedger’s software is used by the IRS and others [to simplify taxation, accounting and audits for cryptocurrency](. AI2 wins ‘Test-of-Time’ award: Researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence were recognized for their artificial intelligence and computational linguistics-related work that has had a particularly long-lasting influence and impact. [Read more](. Thanks for reading, and have a great day. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper,taylor@geekwire.com, and reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com. SPONSOR MESSAGE [Code Your Own Career with J.P. Morgan, one of the world’s biggest tech-driven companies.]( At J.P. Morgan, we’re not just a financial institution, we’re one of the world’s biggest tech-driven companies. We invest $12 billion in technology annually – of which approx. $3 billion is dedicated to innovation. And we’re hiring technologists today for our Payments business. L[earn how to Code Your Own Career, at J.P. Morgan.]( LATEST HEADLINES [Amazon shareholders approve 20:1 stock split, vote down record 15 proposals at annual meeting]( [Crypto tax startup ZenLedger, used by the IRS, raises $15M]( [AI2 researchers win ‘Test-of-Time’ award that honors long-lasting influence for AI-related papers]( [Inside the first Amazon Style store]( [This mobile gas startup just landed $125M to fuel up fleets for Amazon, UPS, others]( SPONSORED: GEEK REAL ESTATE [Just Listed: 5-Acre Equestrian Property in Kingston]( [Has Amazon found its fourth pillar? Revisiting a key question for the company’s future]( [Microsoft’s new ‘Live Share’ enables interactive remote collaboration in Teams apps]( GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [Docugami: ML Engineer]( - [Flyhomes: Senior Product Manager, Client Experiences]( - [Flyhomes: Senior DevOps Engineer]( - [CodePath.org: Senior Campus Program Manager]( - [INRIX: Software Engineer]( - [National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center: Software Engineer 2]( - [Presage Biosciences: Database Developer]( - [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence: Lead Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Director of Engineering – Geospatial Platform]( - [Docugami: Director of Business Development]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2022 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](