A Searchmetrics.com report has shown that online retailer Amazon is the clear leader of paid search advertising on Google, the UK's leading search engine.

The furore stirred up by the leaked memo from Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has inspired huge debate over remote working for employees, particularly at tech companies. No doubt Ms. Mayer believes that in order to revive Yahoo, she needs every one of the 10,000+ staff employed across the country. And while Yahoo have subsequently denied this move to be a 'broad industry view' on working from home, the majority of discussions have been roundly critical of the policy.

According to The Drum and various outlets, California search and tech giant Google has appointed agency 72andSunny to create a new ad campaign for their Google Chrome web browser.

 Chrysalis'client Maplin, the electrical retailer, has announced the appointment of agency WAA to handle their marketing and advertising account.

Tech giant Google have at last ramped up their Google Glass product with a new website and marketing initiatives to launch their uniquely wearable technology.

Everything Everywhere, the mobile network forged via Orange and T-Mobile to launch 4G mobile internet in the UK, has posted some disappointing financial results which has seen turnover and revenues drop despite having a controversial monopoly of the UK's 4G market. The company's pre-tax losses rose from £113m in 2011 to £249m for 2012, with annual turnover down 1.7 per cent to £6.6bn.

Described by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg as a model of "responsible capitalism", John Lewis' shifting focus towards online sales has seen 325 staff in varying managerial positions made redundant.

The 37 hours per month British users spend online is more than any other European market, according to the comScore Digital Future in Focus report released today.

Threepipe Communications and Blowfish Digital are set to unite as one company following a merger, with a  combined staff of 50 now offering a comprehensive digital service from offices in Holborn, London. The company will retain the name and branding of Threepipe.

Creatives around the world will be looking enviously at Matt Jones, a designer whose brief is to redesign the 'smiley face' seen in billions of messages sent every day across the world's favourite social network.

Global advertising and marketing monolith Omnicom Group posted a 12.9% rise in fourth-quarter profits, with net income breaching $300m.

Digital agency ZenithOptimedia has named the UK as among the world's leading markets for digital adoption in their New Media Forecasts report for 2012.

Britain's job market looks to be at last gathering momentum as January showed the sharpest growth in salaries in nearly two years, according to figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

British Telecom have unveiled their logo and insignia in preparation for their sports channel launch this year, designed by digital media agency Red Bee Media.

Following last week's £333m acquisition of Amsterdam-based LBi, Publicis Groupe chairman and chief executive Maurice Lévy has announced the merger of the two agencies to create a new global network branded DigitasLBi.