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Amazon shareholders approve 20:1 stock split, vote down record 15 proposals at annual meeting

Faced with a barrage of proposals on issues ranging from unionization to the environment, a majority of Amazon shareholders followed the board’s lead and rejected an unprecedented slate of issues up for consideration Wednesday morning.

‘Touchdown Starliner!’ Boeing’s space taxi lands in New Mexico after first robotic trip to space station

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space capsule landed safely amid the sands of New Mexico after a six-day test flight to the International Space Station and back.

Has Amazon found its fourth pillar? Revisiting a key question for the company’s future

One year ago, the last question put to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during his final shareholder meeting as the company’s CEO was an important one.

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‘Way cooler than standing in line’: Mariners fans get first crack at Amazon tech in new ballpark market

The Seattle Mariners and their fans would certainly be happy to have a few more walk-off wins this season.

Inside the first Amazon Style store

[Drew Grant is senior editor for dot.LA] Starting today, Glendale’s most meme-able outdoor mall, The Americana at Brand, will be home to the Amazon Style store — the e-commerce giant’s first foray into brick-and-mortar apparel retail.

This mobile gas startup just landed $125M to fuel up fleets for Amazon, UPS, others

The news: Booster Fuels raised $125 million to fuel growth of its mobile gas service used by fleet operators including Amazon, UPS, Imperfect Foods, and others.

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Tech Moves: Elizabeth Scallon departs Amazon for HP; Fauna hires marketing exec; and more

Elizabeth Scallon, a Seattle tech veteran who was most recently at Amazon, is now at HP as director of Incubation enablement.

Here’s how Amazon plans to rein in costs in quest to restore its consumer business to profitability

After doubling its fulfillment capacity and hiring hundreds of thousands of workers to meet demand during the pandemic, Amazon is determined to get costs under control and return its consumer business to profitability, CEO Andy Jassy assured shareholders Wednesday.

Seattle startup JetClosing, which launched in 2016 to digitize home closing process, is shutting down

JetClosing, a 6-year-old Seattle startup that digitizes the home closing process for buyers, sellers, and realtors, is shutting down, GeekWire has learned.

Microsoft acquisition drama continues, as Activision subsidiary’s QA team votes to unionize

The quality-assurance department at Wisconsin-based Call of Duty developer Raven Software has voted to unionize, which could significantly impact its parent company, Activision Blizzard, with potential ripple effects for Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, and for the video game industry as a whole.

Microsoft confirms Office and Windows hiring slowdown in latest sign of economic caution

Microsoft will get more cautious about hiring in its Windows and Office divisions, including its Microsoft Teams group, in the latest sign of companies reassessing their growth plans in response to economic uncertainty.

About to take early stage startup job? Amid concern of downturn, CEO says to ask these hard questions

In addition to the usual questions about pay and benefits and culture and so on, a climate of economic uncertainty in the tech sector should have job seekers asking tougher questions of their potential startup employers.

How this Amazon engineering outpost is translating its unique geographic position into growth

PITTSBURGH — When we last visited Amazon’s engineering center in this city, back in 2018, the company had just announced plans to expand its footprint and add about 125 jobs to what was then a workforce of 60 people here.

Think you can land on an aircraft carrier? Microsoft releases ‘Top Gun’ expansion for ‘Flight Simulator’

Here’s a chance to really test your flying skills in “Microsoft Flight Simulator.” The company released a long-awaited “Top Gun: Maverick” expansion on Thursday that will have users conducting fighter jet maneuvers that truly tap into the “need for speed.” The free release is timed to the return of Tom Cruise and the new movie of the same name, 36 years after the original “Top Gun.” The “Flight Simulator” expansion features a special livery for the F/A-18E Super Hornet; training missions to learn maneuvers such as unrestricted take-offs, split S maneuvers, and low altitude, high-speed maneuvering through complex terrain; use…

Inside an Amazon robotic sortation center: How automation is changing the ‘middle mile’

IMPERIAL, Pa. — For a first-hand look at how robots and automation are changing logistics, we recently visited “PIT9,” an Amazon facility that opened last fall in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh.

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