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New Xbox Series S is “Back in Black” with 1 TB of storage

There’s no doubt games can take up a lot of space on your computer or console these days. Among the many games announced at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier today, the company also announced a brand new Xbox Series S console, black in color, with 1TB of storage space.

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While the Xbox Series X boasts 1TB of storage space, the digital-only Xbox Series S only has 512GB. This can fill up quickly with only a few games, especially given some likes Forza Horizon 5 can be upwards of 100GB. Now gamers will be able to

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Progress Software (PRGS): Restarting The M&A Engine With MarkLogic Acquisition

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Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) recently announced its proposed acquisition of privately held on-premise NoSQL database vendor MarkLogic for $355m cash (webcast here). The implied 3-4x EV/Sales valuation seems slightly pricey given the low-single-digit % growth

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MeWe opening up profiles for web view without an account

On July 1st, Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be closing its users’ profile from view on the web, if you do not have a Twitter account. Since Twitter’s launch, profiles and Tweets could be seen by anyone, even without an account. Musk attributed the move to a rash of data scrapping that Twitter is trying to get a handle on. MeWe, an alternative social network that I, personally, use and where we have a considerable following, has announced the polar opposite.

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MeWe has always been a closed ecosystem and you always need an account