SEO & Traffic

Google's June 2025 Core Update: What Changed and What to Do

Google's June 2025 core update ran from June 30 to July 17. E-E-A-T signals got heavier weighting. Zero-click share jumped to 69%. Here's what shifted and how to respond.

Digital Spotlights

Moving Average Tracks What Most Market Tools Bury

Moving Average is a site sponsor. Their tool does one thing: tracks simple moving averages for stocks, crypto, and indices in one clean interface. Here's what it covers.

Emerging Brands

DeepSeek Released R1, Its First Public Reasoning Model

A Chinese AI lab published a 671-billion-parameter reasoning model under MIT license, trained for roughly $5.9 million. The benchmarks match OpenAI's o1. The implications are harder to ignore.

Gaming & Entertainment

Palworld's 2024: Record Launch, Nintendo Lawsuit, and the Feybreak Update

Palworld closes 2024 with the Feybreak update while Pocketpair fights a Nintendo and Pokémon Company patent lawsuit. A look at the year - from broken launch records and a Sony deal to an ongoing legal battle.

Emerging Brands

How Fisker Went From 300 EVs a Day to Chapter 11 in Six Months

Fisker filed for Chapter 11 in June 2024 after months of safety investigations, missed sales targets, a collapsed Nissan deal, and millions in mismanaged customer payments. Here's how it got there.

SEO & Traffic

Google Just Switched on AI Overviews. The Bigger Change Is Still Coming.

Google launched AI Overviews at I/O 2024 and announced it will use generative AI to organize entire search results pages for discovery queries. What publishers and SEO practitioners need to understand about where this is going.

Emerging Brands

Reddit Signs $60M-Per-Year Google AI Deal Days Before Its IPO Filing

Reddit reportedly signed a $60 million per year AI data deal with Google, timed with its long-awaited IPO filing. Here's what both sides are getting - and why the company that killed third-party apps is now selling its API to the biggest AI customer around.

Gaming & Entertainment

Microsoft Cuts 1,900 Xbox Jobs as Games Industry Layoffs Show No Sign of Stopping

Microsoft cut 1,900 gaming jobs across ZeniMax and Activision Blizzard studios, days after an Xbox showcase previewing upcoming exclusives. It's the latest wave in a games industry that laid off over 10,000 workers in 2023.