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Microsoft and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Media Co Ltd, known as
BesTV, were fined 200,000 yuan ($31,430)each for failing to
report to antitrust regulators that their joint venture exceeded
a market share threshold that usually triggers a disclosure
requirement.
Microsoft and BesTV formed a venture in 2013 to bring the Xbox
to China after the government lifted a 14-year ban on consoles.
The Xbox investigation, which did not find Xbox in serious
violation of any antitrust rules, was unrelated to an ongoing
probe by China's National Development and Reform Commission into
Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office software sales
practices.
(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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