French media company Publicis Groupe have announced a surge in revenues in the first six months of 2013, reporting growth of 8.7% on last year to a mammoth €3.35 billion (£2.88bn).

Swiss bank UBS is suing Nasdaq over "gross mishandling"over shares purchased during the infamous Facebook IPO flotation - which helped the company to a loss of 130m Swiss Francs.

Just days after announcing their withdrawal from advertising on Facebook (and putting a rather sour note on the social networking giant's forthcoming IPO) General Motors have shocked the marketing world again by announcing that they will not advertise during the 2013 NFL Super Bowl.

In the battle of the internet web browser giants, the incumbent champion, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has now been ousted as 2008 upstart Google Chrome has become the most popular in the world.