"We call Silicon Valley Nasdaq country, " Bruce Aust, a Nasdaq executive vice president who heads listings, said in an interview that year.

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They have just abruptly dethroned their long-serving editor, Stefan Aust.

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In recent months, Mr. Aust has been a frequent presence in Silicon Valley in a bid to win the listings of companies such as Facebook and Zynga Inc.

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"By combining our resources, expertise and reach with SharesPost's established technology, we will bring scale, efficiency and transparency to this marketplace, " Nasdaq Executive Vice President Bruce Aust said in a statement.

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Mr Aust had made Spiegel shine.

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This historical drama, directed by Uli Edel and based on the book of the same name by Stefan Aust, takes us scrupulously through the heyday of the group, in the nineteen-seventies, each deed more brazen and brutal than the last: the bombing of a newspaper office, the daylight murders of prominent German citizens, the siege of an embassy in Stockholm, the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet, and so forth.

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