Business networking giant LinkedIn has purchased the online presentation utility SlideShare, further enhancing its dominance as the definitive site for corporate and business use.

SlideShare lets users upload presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars publicly or privately, which can be embedded on blogs, websites, company intranets and shared across Twitter, Facebook and now LinkedIn. Users have uploaded more than 9 million presentations to date. according to data from market research company ComScore, SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors in the month of March.

LinkedIn also released its financial result for the first quarter, with incredible success. Revenue was £117 million, representing an increase of 101 % compared to the first quarter of 2011. Net income grew from £1.3 million to £3 million during the same period.

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According to our friends at The Drum, over HALF of Britain's young people are using Twitter!

"According to the latest YAP (Young Adult Power) Media Index, the quarterly survey of 540 young  people across the UK has found that 53 per cent used Twitter in April, compared with 42 per cent at the end of 2011.The Index showed that a third of 18-24 year-olds are now using the social media platform at least once a day. "

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Despite the mired economic turmoil and the private sector in a state of flux, Chrysalis unique brand of digital marketing/media recruitment continues to go from strength to strength.

The digital recruiter continues to improve its financial standings on a monthly basis - but this doesn't come as a surprise to staff.

Chrysalis Recruitment sees its brand going from strength-to-strength, with last month a 15% increase on the company’s best-ever month – in the pre-recession heyday of 2007.

Despite the struggles of other recruiters across the U.K., Chrysalis’ commitment and dedication to sourcing and helping candidates find first-rate digital media positions with blue-chip companies is a reaffirmed success with the release of these new figures.

“It is always sad to see fellow recruiters going out of businesses,” said Senior Consultant Harriet Sanders.

Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that job vacancies were down 3.9 per cent on an annual basis in the three months through to March, a slightly slower decline than the 4.1 per cent fall in the three months before February.
A recent report by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) containing information from 400 employment consultancies showed that permanent staff placements in April did increase, but the rate of growth was the slowest since January. The investigation also highlighted that salaries for permanent jobs are generally frozen – with 83 per cent unchanged since the previous month.

Chief executive of REC, Kevin Green, said: “This month’s figures show growth in permanent jobs but at the slowest level since January.”
However, it’s not all bad news.
“Employer and consumer confidence are increasing and we anticipate more private sector jobs being created in the second half of the year.”
Job board Reed.co.uk’s figures for the month of April show a fall in job opportunities during compared to March, though demand remains seven per cent up on the same month in 2011.