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Is Alibaba’s fate a warning to China’s tech giants? – BBC News
Alibaba’s run-in with Chinese regulators has made things tense for its other technology giants.
By Karishma VaswaniAsia business correspondent
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image captionAn investigation into Alibaba found it had restricted merchants from doing business on rival platforms
It’s been a tough week for Chinese tech firms.
Over the weekend, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s e-commerce giant Alibaba was fined $2.8bn (£2bn) by Chinese regulators, who said it had abused its market position for years.
Then on Monday, Chinese digital payments firm Ant Group – an affiliate of Alibaba – announced…
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