Melania Trump has accepted an apology from "The Daily Mail" over an unsubstantiated report the paper ran about her life before marrying Donald Trump. "The Guardian" believes she received GBP3m worth of damages from the paper.

Today's 'Leader' in The Times will make uncomfortable reading for Facebook. The paper has been writing negative stories about the social media giant all week, accusing it of not doing enough to remove extremist and paedophilic content. It was an investigation from The Times which last month caused high profile brands to boycott Google over similar accusations.

Hermes is to trial delivery via robot in Southwark, London. Campaign reports the delivery company ran a pilot of robot deliveries in Germany last summer. The London trial will test whether self-driving robots are a viable alternative in the future to drones and so allow Hermes to offer delivery slots for within the next 30 minutes.

Virgin Media has admitted that it was responsible for a domain name issue which prevented its 5 million customers accessing Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The BBC reports that the issue was first noticed on Tuesday and lasted until a fix was found yesterday.

It's not just the UK that has seen record levels of digital marketing. IAB Ireland and PwC reveal that Ireland has also seen a massive year-on-year rise of 31% to reach 445m Euros. It was the first year, eMarketer reveals, that mobile spend outweighed desktop, thanks largely to a 63% rise in mobile ad spend.

Good news for marketers, according to American Express research quoted in "Marketing Week." CFOs are backing marketing -- 57% will continue to commit around the same level of investment, while 31% reveal they are to increase investment in advertising, marketing and PR.

Tesco's pre-tax profits have fallen 28% to GBP145m, despite reporting its first annual jump in sales for seven years, Sky News reports. The supermarket chain has been hit by servicing a GBP1.9bn debt and a GBP129m fine from the Serious Fraud Office.

IAB UK figures show that Internet advertising grew at 17% last year to surpass GBP10bn for the first time last year. The surge in revenue is mostly attributable to mobile, "The Drum" reports.

Are ad blockers trying to be the good guy? That's the question asked by "The Guardian" this morning as news that AdBlock Plus has moved from ad-blocking alone to buy Flattr, a micropayments service. By using the technology to allow publishers to accept payment on a per-article basis, the paper suggests the arch villain could be trying to turn over a new leaf.

Timberland is reported in Campaign as driving in-store visits up by 6% among outdoor-loving 18-34 year olds. It worked with Amplifi, Vizeum and xAd to target people most likely to be interested in the outdoors and fashion and who were near a store. In fact, the distance to their nearest store was flagged up in display.