Amazon shareholders vote down record 15 proposals at annual meeting

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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
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