Facebook Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell Remotely From 'FB' Headquarters in Menlo Park, California

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. 

18.05.2012 12:00
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ADVISORY, May 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Facebook will ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell remotely from their
headquarters in Menlo Park, California in celebration of their initial public
offering (IPO) which will take place today, Friday, May 18, 2012 on The NASDAQ
Global Select Market. Facebook will begin trading under the ticker symbol 'FB'. 

In honor of the occasion, Facebook Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will ring
the Opening Bell. 

Where:

Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park. The event will be closed to the press.

When:

Opening Bell - Friday, May 18, 2012 - 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Alex Honeysett
(646) 441-5211
Alexandra.honeysett@nasdaqomx.com

To Access a Live Feed of The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell (9:20 a.m. - 9:35
a.m. ET): 
Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463

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SR 13.235
DR 18.295411
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The Live Opening Bell Ceremony will also be Streamed on NASDAQ.com from 9:28 to
9:32 a.m. 

A Live Feed of the IPO Cross / Facebook Ticker Symbol on the NASDAQ Studio Wall
will be available from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET exclusively for news purposes. 

Encompass Media (Waterfront) fiber 4023

or

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Uplink Freq: 6054
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Symbol Rate: 13.235
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Format: 4:2:0
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By providing a newsfeed of the NASDAQ IPO Cross, NASDAQ is assisting news media
in reporting about NASDAQ's process for conducting IPOs and the Facebook
offering. For more information about The NASDAQ IPO Cross, see
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/productsservices/trading/ipohalt/ipo_factshe
et.pdf.
The feed may be used only as part of news media reporting on these topics. 

Facebook Newsroom:

The Facebook Newsroom will be updated with images and video throughout the day
at: http://newsroom.fb.com. 

NASDAQ Facebook and Twitter Pages:

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.shareholder.com/marketsitetowervideo.asx. 

About NASDAQ OMX:

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 US
and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 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-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999%
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 3,400 listed
companies worth $5.1 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
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                                    -NDAQA-
News Source: NASDAQ OMX



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