Business News at a Glance

JD.com Chairman Arrested in U.S. in Sexual Misconduct Case

The billionaire founder of JD.com, one of China’s largest online retailers, was arrested Friday in Minnesota for alleged sexual misconduct before being released a day later, police records show. In a statement posted Sunday afternoon on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, JD.com said the executive, Liu Qiangdong — who goes by Richard Liu in the English-speaking world — had been falsely accused. Police officials in Minneapolis said they were treating the case as an active investigation. Police will, after the investigation, recommend to prosecutors whether Liu should be charged with a misdemeanor or felony or face no charges.

Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration

The Trump administration is using the country’s immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals. The government is denying more work visas. Hospitals, hotels, technology companies and other businesses say they are struggling to fill jobs with the foreign workers they need. A recent analysis of government data by the National Foundation for American Policy found the denial rate for H-1B visa petitions for skilled foreign workers had increased 41 percent in the last three months of the 2017 fiscal year, compared with the third quarter.

Federal Workers Brace for New Push on Trump Bid to Curb Unions

The Trump administration seemed to suffer a major setback recently when a judge rebuffed its efforts to impose tighter labor rules in federal agencies. But the judge largely found fault with the means by which it had acted, not with the ends it was pursuing: to make it easier to fire federal employees and limit the power of their unions. As a result, the administration may yet achieve the same goals. And according to workers and union officials, the effort has already created a climate of anxiety across much of the government.

Print Is Dead? Not Here

The Villages Daily Sun, which exhaustively covers the retirement community The Villages in Central Florida, is in the midst of a boom that few other papers can imagine. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Sun’s weekday circulation of 55,700 is up 169 percent since 2003. Over the same time, weekday newspaper circulation across the United States has dropped 43 percent. The Daily Sun boasts a 92 percent market penetration. But the investigative powers of the newspaper have their limits; they are unlikely to be unleashed on The Villages. The Daily Sun is published by The Villages Operating Co.

Tricky Ads From a Vitamin Company That Talks Up Openness

The startup Ritual, which sells its own line of multivitamins for women, has tried to stand out by focusing on facts. Yet a closer look at Ritual’s marketing showed that the Los Angeles company, which has raised $16.5 million in funding, has not always helped customers separate facts from spin. The company has paid for articles on websites like Well & Good and PureWow, and then taken positive quotes from those articles in its ads on Facebook and Instagram. It has used news coverage from CNN and The New York Times to suggest the outlets endorsed benefits from its vitamins.

Was That Serena Williams in the Hotel Room Next to Mine?

If you followed the social media accounts of tennis players Serena Williams, Stan Wawrinka and Garbiñe Muguruza, all in New York for the U.S. Open, you might have noticed similarities. All are staying in Manhattan hotels that they seem eager to promote. Responsible for their own expenses, tennis players have discovered a way to subsidize and earn money from their sleep, striking deals with hotels to mention where they are staying in social media, and sometimes making other appearances, in exchange for free rooms and discounts. Several New York hotels put out news releases naming players who are staying there.

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Tops Box Office for Third Week

“Crazy Rich Asians” keeps getting richer, topping the North American box office for a third week in a row and taking in more than double the weekend earnings of the second-highest-grossing film. “Crazy Rich Asians” (Warner Bros.), led by Asian stars, sold about $22.2 million in tickets from Friday to Sunday. Also for the third weekend in a row, “The Meg” (Warner Bros.) came in second. The blockbuster-by-design aquatic thriller sold about $10.5 million in tickets. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” (Paramount) came in third, with an estimated gross of $7 million during its sixth weekend at the box office.