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The top 20 tech hangouts in NYC (and many are in Brooklyn and Soho, of course).

Apple sells 9 mln iPhones during the launch week for its 5c and 5s. This compares to 5 mln sold for the iPhone 5 last year.

Shaquille O’Neal is buying a stake in the Sacramento Kings basketball team.

OMG Blackberry finds a buyer!! Fairfax Financial to acquire them for $9 a share, or $4.7 bln cash.

Disgraced former Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz are out of prison, baby.

The iPhone 5s fingerprint reader has been hacked by the Chaos Computer Club.

Flipboard raises another $50 mln in new funding in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs.

PayPal is near a deal to buy Braintree Payments.

Texas Tech tops the list of the 10 best universities to work for.

Photo courtesy of Reuters/Mike Cassese