While most have reported a shorter loading time than even the post-firmware update HD-A1, a few have had lockups and glitches.

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Although the new post- Sarbanes-Oxley accounting regulator, the PCAOB, has been working very hard to update and strengthen many of these standards for the benefit of investors, they have, in reality, had a hard time making substantial changes to many of them.

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Next also said that the start of its post-Christmas sale had been successful in its brief trading update.

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Last week, I wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the post-referendum investment environment in Sudan, and promised to update the blog with any new information.

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The company is quietly solving that problem: an update pushing out to individual users lets them drag-and-drop photos into a new post, like we've seen on other social networks, and to a newly streamlined Messages format that's rolling out at the same time.

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