NASDAQ #dreamBIG Day Celebrating Tweets From the World's Dreamers


NASDAQ MarketSite Studio to Transform Into Platform for Twitter and Vine Users to Share #dreamBIG Success Stories

Z100, New York's Largest Hit Music Station, and Karmin to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, June 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

On June 10, NASDAQ will celebrate dreamers and doers across all industries – from the arts and music to business and finance – using the power of social media. During the Opening Bell and following the ceremony we will be live streaming #dreamBIG Tweets, Twitpics and Vine videos on the NASDAQ MarketSite Tower in Times Square and in the NASDAQ MarketSite Broadcast Studio. #dreamBIG is NASDAQ initiative about celebrating the success of making dreams a reality!

Since its inception NASDAQ has provided a platform for innovative ideas to come to life. Karmin exemplifies NASDAQ's #dreamBIG campaign.  In April of 2011 Karmin ignited the blogosphere when they posted a cover of Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" on YouTube demonstrating their musical talents – 2 years later, they have become a worldwide sensation and will join Z100, New York's largest hit music station, to ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell on behalf of all of the followers who #dreamBIG.

View the livestream of #dreamBIG success stories: NASDAQ #dreamBIG

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Monday, June 10, 2013 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET      

NASDAQ Contact:

Joshua Machiz
(212) 231-5614
Joshua.Machiz@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
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Social Media:

For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ.                  

For news tweets, please visit our Twitter page at: http://twitter.com/nasdaqomx.

Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About NASDAQ OMX Group:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 26 markets including 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-55 microsecond average speeds with 99.99% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,300 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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