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Steve Wozniak visits Xiaomi in China, endorses its products

Wozniak was invited on a speaking engagement to help inspire the company's engineers

Facebook’s new rating system catches flak from some business owners

Small businesses are lashing out against a new star rating feature on the site

Supreme Court to hear case on Aereo’s broadcast TV streaming

TV networks are suing the startup for streaming local broadcast TV over the Internet

Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project

Contractor that built troubled health care site will be replaced by Accenture amid growing frustration over pace of repairs, report says

Wall Street Beat: Forecasts call for tech to trend upward this year

Spending increases are forecast for software, smartphones and tablets

Tech Performance Issues Plague IT and Businesses

Hot IT job skills in 2014: Mobile, web development and big data

Companies are also looking for workers with more traditional skills for security and quality assurance jobs

SAP’s revenue mix is slowly shifting to cloud, preliminary figures show

SAP expects to report a 2 percent rise in Q4 revenue, with the propoertion from cloud subscriptions and support up 66 percent

Euro electronic payments will fail unless SEPA deadline is extended, warns European Commission

The Commission wants to extend its deadline by six months to give countries such as Germany a chance to adopt new payment rules

Report claims Windows 8.1 Update 1 has leaked

A typically reliable Russian source shows the next release of Windows won't improve on the Start menu.