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Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s global consumer company, will retire in the first quarter of 2021, the company announced in a statement filed Friday. Dave Clark, who is senior vice president of retail companies, will succeed Wilke after he retires, Amazon said. In a memo to staff, titled “Hanging the …

Cashiers at the Chipotle restaurant chain have run customers’ tabs a little too well, according to a lawsuit. Some chain locations in Pennsylvania have held the change by hundreds of thousands of dollars, the suit claims, Pittsburgh-based KDKA-TV reported. The state attorney’s office has received at least seven complaints, reports …

British and EU officials said Friday that not much progress had been made in negotiations to impose new terms of trade before transitional Brexit arrangements expire at the end of 2020. Michel Barnier, chief negotiator for the European Union, said discussions even in reverse on key issues were shifting issues …

Jay-Z has often boasted about his business acumen, so it’s not surprising that he came up next to Pharrell Williams with a single about the trials and tribulations of the Black entrepreneur in American life. But such tried-and-true imagery takes on a different luster in the era of protests over …