Thanks to a world-first training camp in Barcelona, a partnership between search marketing agency WebCertain and Russian search giant Yandex has created a host of multilingual PPC Managers after just three days of comprehensive paid search tutoring.

Kenshoo Social measurement tools have revealed Facebook adverts are more popular than ever before, with click-throughs up 16% and revenues up 28%.

Property search estate agency Strutt and Parker have appointed digital agency Total Media to manage their SEO and online visibility, according to The Drum magazine.

The reform of Google's search practices in the EU were yesterday rejected by the European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia in a parliamentary hearing.

In the monthly Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs, the acceleration and growth of permanent vacancies increased for the first time in six months.

The French media group, which owns digital agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom MediaVest, have revealed a 6% drop in shares following the publication of their 2013 Q1 results.

Agency M&C Saatchi have paid tribute to the memory of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher with a full-page advert in the Sunday Times.

According to job site Reed.co.uk, job postings in PR and marketing are up 13.39% in Q1 2013.

French media group Havas, owners of Havas Worldwide and Havas Media, have announced a 14.5% rise in pre-tax profits for 2012, a total of £160m (€190m).

The Publicis-owned digital agency Razorfish has agreed a global strategic partnership to integrate its Fluent software with Adobe's Cloud technology. This unique marketing software will be available exclusively to Publicis clients, such as the newly-merged DigitasLBi, in an effort to create an unparalleled digital marketing tool.

Digital media monolith Aegis has completed the purchase of the Dublin-based agency to become part of its re-branded Isobar team.

Though the world didn't end in 2012, whatever the Mayans predicted surely didn't have all of these disasters in mind...