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Walmart is quietly changing your groceries—here’s what’s disappearing
October 01, 2025 Walmart is quietly changing your groceries—here’s what’s disappearing If you’ve ever flipped over a Walmart snack or frozen pizza to check the ingredients list, the company’s about to make that label a whole lot cleaner. The retail giant just announced it’s giving its U.S. private food brands a major makeover, cutting out … Continue reading Walmart is quietly changing your groceries—here’s what’s disappearing
LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic
Sitewide clicks are down, but clicks to homepages are up 10.7%. Your homepages may become even more valuable in AI search experiences. Danny Goodwin on May 23, 2025 Google’s AI Overviews and large language models (LLMs) have severely eroded clicks, click-through rates, and organic traffic to websites. But a new Siege Media report may have found a silver … Continue reading LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic
Apple quietly beefs up its AI division with acquisition of French startup
April 22, 2024 Apple quietly beefs up its AI division with acquisition of French startup Datakalab specializes in data compression and image analysis. BY Chris Morris Apple is far from the loudest voice in the world of artificial intelligence right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s planning to sit out the fight. The company quietly acquired … Continue reading Apple quietly beefs up its AI division with acquisition of French startup
YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month
YouTube Premium family plan now costs $23 a month Sean Buckley @seaniccus If you subscribe to a YouTube Premium family plan, you may want to check your email: Google is notifying users that the monthly cost of the service will be going up by $5 a month. Starting in November, most users will … Continue reading YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month
How Modelo Especial quietly became America’s top beer brand
By Rob Walker Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. This month, Modelo Especial became the top-selling beer in the United States, surpassing longtime sales-champion Bud Light. So far, Modelo Especial’s crowning has largely been explained less in terms of Modelo’s rise than in terms of the … Continue reading How Modelo Especial quietly became America’s top beer brand
LinkedIn’s quietly enduring importance
By Harry McCracken March 08, 2023 This story is from Fast Company’s new Plugged In newsletter, a weekly roundup of tech insights, news, and trends from global technology editor Harry McCracken, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Sign up for Plugged In—and all of our newsletters—here. There aren’t many websites I frequented back in 2003 that I … Continue reading LinkedIn’s quietly enduring importance
Google Quietly Tests New Way For Publishers To Monetize Web Sites
Google Quietly Tests New Way For Publishers To Monetize Web Sites by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 23, 2022 Google is testing a new feature with publishers that will enable the companies to “diversify their revenue” by providing new choices to monetize the site alongside traditional ads. The company says it will have more to share … Continue reading Google Quietly Tests New Way For Publishers To Monetize Web Sites
Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers ‘quietly unionized during the pandemic,’ report says
Google’s ‘raters’ are pushing for $15 an hour The company raised wages for some vendors, but RaterLabs wasn’t one of them. A. Khalid @askhalid SOPA Images via Getty Images Part-time employees at RaterLabs — an AI vendor whose only known client is Google — are campaigning to qualify for the $15 hourly minimum wage … Continue reading Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers ‘quietly unionized during the pandemic,’ report says