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Alibaba, Tencent fined in China for not complying with anti-monopoly rules

Chinese market regulator has imposed a fine on the two tech companies as a part of its crackdown on monopolistic practices. It has also released a list of deals that violated the rules

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Reuters Shanghai
China has imposed fines on technology giants Alibaba and Tencent as
well as a range of other firms for failing to comply with anti-monopoly rules on the disclosure of transactions, the country's market regulator said on Sunday.

The State Admnistration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released a list of 28 deals that violated the rules. Five involved units of Alibaba, including a 2021 purchase of equity in its subsidiary, the Youku Tudou streaming platform.

Tencent was involved in 12 of the transactions on SAMR's list. The firms could not immediately be reached for comment.

China's tech sector has been one of the

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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