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Axios Pro Exclusive ContentNasdaq buys trading and risk management firm Adenza for $10.5BIllustration: Aïda Amer/AxiosNasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) has agreed to acquire Thoma Bravo-controlled Adenza — which makes software used by banks and brokerages for trading, treasury and risk management — for $10.5 billion in cash and stock.Why it matters: It's the largest acquisition in Nasdaq’s history, and the deal bolsters the firm’s attempt to secure more predictable recurring revenues.Details: The $10.5 billion deal comprises $5.75 billion in cash and 85.6 million shares of Nasdaq common stock.Nasdaq plans to issue about $5.9 billion of debt to fund the cash component.The deal is expected to close in six to nine months.Between the lines: The acquisition highlights Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman’s efforts to diversify the exchange’s revenue and transform it into a technology provider for the financial services industry.Roughly 80% of Adenza’s revenue is recurring, and it has a 15% organic revenue growth forecast for the year.Adenza is expected to generate $590 million of revenue this year and add $300 million in pre-tax cash flow.Moreover, its addition is expected to boost Nasdaq’s Solutions Businesses sales as a percentage of total revenue from 71% in Q1 to 77% by year-end, and to raise its

June 12, 2023 Written by Klaudia Tirico Published in News Briefs Quick Scoop: LinkedIn announced a new suite of tools to help marketers measure organic and paid efforts. The new suite includes the CMO Scorecard, B2B Index and B2B Leaderboard. LinkedIn unveiled a new suite of tools designed to help B2B marketers better measure their organic and paid efforts. The new tools include CMO Scorecard, the B2B Index and the B2B Leaderboard. Each tool aims to provide companies with a better understanding of brand investments impacting their bottom line. Specifically: The CMO Scorecard aims to help measure the effectiveness of brand marketing efforts by gauging the creative, media and outcome metrics required to give companies a competitive edge. The B2B Index provides a composite score of three brand-building efforts: Brand investment, creative quality and effectiveness and brand outcomes. The B2B Leaderboard is designed to highlight the most successful brands based on a creativity scale, a buyer intent scale and their organic and paid marketing efforts. Learn more about the CMO Scorecard and B2B Index on LinkedIn.

The secret to building a successful career is becoming a better problem solver, says former President Barack Obama. No matter what disruptions shake up the economy — whether it's the pandemic, AI or climate change— being a resourceful, adaptable employee will make you indispensable, Obama told LinkedIn News' "This Is Working" podcast on June 1.This is especially true for Gen Zers, many of whom started their careers in fractured hybrid or remote work environments at the height of the pandemic."The most important advice I give to young people is … just learn how to get stuff done," Obama explained. "I've seen at every level people who are very good at describing problems, people who are very sophisticated in explaining why something went wrong or why something can't get fixed, but what I'm always looking for is no matter how small the problem or how big it is, somebody who says, 'Let me take care of that.'"Projecting an attitude of "whatever it is that's needed, I can handle it" at work, the former president added, will help you build a strong rapport with your co-workers and managers. "Whoever's running that organization will notice, I promise," he said. Obama's recommendation is similar to the

A Product Designer's Hilarious "Unhinged" UI Design Features Soren Iverson's "Can You Imagine?" series For his day job, product designer Soren Iverson handles the Cash app's UI. On the side, the L.A.-based designer, who has a wicked sense of humor, design concepts for "unhinged" UI features that no one asked for. With the perceptive eye of a stand-up comic, Iverson observes how people interact with commonly-used apps, then marshals his keen grasp of both human nature and business reality to present "Wouldn't it be funny if…" design proposals like the following:"iMessage typing indicator that shows length of the message" "Doordash 'bite request'" "UberEats option to steal a meal" "iOS Posture Check" "LinkedIn nepotism disclosure" "iMessage literally watch them type" "Uber Eats meet your meat" "Spotify prioritize artists legal name""iMessage show the number of times they've read a message" "BeReal Corporate automatically takes photos of your screen and shares them with your manager" "Fidelity projected retirement age""Tinder feature to show when photo was taken""Uber Eats feature to share dining behavior with your insurance provider" "United feature to 'duel' people for their seat" "Facebook feature to tell you if people read the article before sharing" Iverson, who cranks these out regularly, has

SpaceX has hired a young prodigy to join its Starlink division as a software engineer.  14-year-old Kairan Quazi will graduate this month from Santa Clara University in California. He started studying computer science and engineering at the age of 11. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. The latest recruit at SpaceX is a software engineer who passed its "technically challenging" and "fun" interview process.  What's different about Kairan Quazi is that he's just 14 years old.He said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: "I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability."The post came shortly before his graduation from Santa Clara University's school of engineering, becoming the youngest person to do so, the Seattle Times reported. He's planning to make the move from Pleasanton, California with his mother to start work at SpaceX in Redmond, Washington, per the report.Quazi's extraordinary journey started at the age of two, when he could speak in complete sentences. By

Image Source : PIXABAY LinkedIn introduces AI copy suggestions for advertisers: What it is and how it works? LinkedIn has unveiled a new tool called "AI-generated Copy Suggestions" that uses generative AI to create compelling intro text and headlines for ad creatives. This feature capitalizes data from an advertiser's LinkedIn Page and Campaign Manager settings, including objectives, targeting criteria, and audience information, to generate ad copy suggestions and headlines that can jumpstart marketing campaigns. In a recent blog post, LinkedIn stated, "We're developing AI-generated Copy Suggestions that use advanced OpenAI GPT models to leverage data from your LinkedIn Page and Campaign Manager settings, like objective, targeting criteria and audience, to suggest ad headlines and copy to help you jumpstart your campaigns." Currently being rolled out as a pilot program in North America in English, LinkedIn plans to enhance the tool's functionality, expand language support, and increase availability in the coming months. The company mentioned that the AI tool is designed to provide up to five headline and ad copy recommendations within LinkedIn's Campaign Manager. Users have the flexibility to edit and customize these suggestions to align with their brand's voice and messaging.  ALSO READ: WhatsApp introduces new interface for group settings

You might have noticed that your LinkedIn profile is getting almost no visitors or it is not getting the success that you want. It may also happen that you also feel that it is empty and you do not know what is missing or you do not know what you can add to it to make it better. Whether you are using the app for your business or looking for a job or employee, there are many things that you might find useful you can do to improve it. If you don’t, chances are no one will notice or be interested in you. If you want your appearance to be discreet, that’s fine, but if you don’t want to miss out on an opportunity, you should consider customizing your profile beyond the basic data. for this you have to spend some timeBut it’ll be worth it. 10 facts for a more professional LinkedIn profile When you log in to LinkedIn add a photo, your full name, your places of interest and click on the pencil that you will find in the upper right to edit your presentation and show several data that we will discuss below. to go to this

(Bloomberg) -- As the world of work transforms, LinkedIn is betting that the way employers hire and the way people find jobs will also radically change in the years and decades ahead.Most Read from BloombergAmericans Are Leaving Portugal as Golden Visa Honeymoon EndsDonald Trump Charged in Florida Over Secret Documents CaseRussian Elite Is Souring on Putin’s Chances of Winning His WarUkraine’s New Tanks Are Seen in Action as Counteroffensive Gets UnderwayLeaving New York for Miami Can Save Nearly $200,000LinkedIn Inc., the popular job-networking site, sees a future in which employers will be willing to look beyond long-established entry requirements such as college degrees and prior job titles to focus instead on an applicant's proven skills whether that be data analysis, leadership or storytelling.LinkedIn is anticipating the direction companies themselves have indicated they've wanted to move in.While over 80% of employers believe they should hire based on skills rather than degrees, more than half say they are still hiring college grads because it feels less risky. That’s according to a survey conducted last summer by workforce development nonprofits American Student Assistance and Jobs for the Future.“Skills-based hiring is the great white whale, the holy grail of the labor market,” said Joseph

Using LinkedIn for your Non-Academic Career Search Tuesday, June 13th | 1:00 PM EDT | Register here to attend Navigating the non-academic job market as a Political Science graduate student or PhD requires a different approach than the academic job market. Join Natalie Jackson to learn how to use LinkedIn to search for non-academic jobs suited for Political Science PhDs. This APSA Careers Diversity Committee workshop will demonstrate strategies for using LinkedIn to identify relevant employment opportunities, cover how to read job descriptions to find good matches, and share practices to build your profile to stand out to industry recruiters and potential employers.  This APSA Careers Diversity Committee professional development event is welcome to all interested. Registration is required. Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. Meet Natalie Jackson, Ph.D. Natalie Jackson is a research consultant and has held a variety of non-faculty positions in media, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions since earning her PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 2011. She has spent the last 15 years developing extensive expertise in the survey research process and quantitative political science. Natalie’s research on how people form opinions, as well as on the election polling and forecasting landscape, has appeared in peer-reviewed

June 8, 2023 8:52 AM Image Credit: Getty Images Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Following in the footsteps of Meta, LinkedIn has announced a generative AI tool to help automate the writing part of ad campaigns housed on the professional network. Dubbed AI Copy Suggestions, the feature allows users to generate introductory text and headlines for ads. It uses data from the LinkedIn platform to ensure relevancy while also giving users the option to make changes (if required) and keep the content aligned with their brand language. The capability, just starting to roll out, is the latest addition to the Microsoft-owned company’s portfolio of AI-driven features. LinkedIn had already launched AI tools for collaborative articles, job descriptions, and personalized writing suggestions for LinkedIn profiles. Event Transform 2023 Join us in San Francisco on July 11-12, where top executives will share how they have integrated and optimized AI investments for success and avoided common pitfalls. Register Now How will AI Copy Suggestions help? LinkedIn is adding AI to its campaign manager using OpenAI’s GPT models. As the company explains, users of the platform