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An employee looks at the cyber threat monitor at the executive briefing center at FireEye in Milpitas, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. FireEye is a network security company at the forefront of cyber security. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
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An employee looks at the cyber threat monitor at the executive briefing center at FireEye in Milpitas, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. FireEye is a network security company at the forefront of cyber security. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
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Here s what s on the Friday menu.

Cyber security company FireEye to lay off 300 to 400 workers, misses estimates and cuts forecasts. Its shares are down sharply.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Kirkorian, Sling founder and streaming-media pioneer, dies at 48.

The Olympics gods are forbidding the media to make GIFs of anything Olympics-related.

Google partners with Dashlane and other password managers on Open Yolo, an open-source project. In this case, Yolo stands for you only log in once.

Yahoo communications chief leaves company ahead of Verizon buyout.

Bay Area startup Otto to start self-driving tests with truckers by the end of the year.

Mercedes is preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles, Bloomberg reports.

ICYMI: Daily fantasy sports sites legal again in New York.

Apple is being urged to rethink gun emoji change, with the Emojipedia website arguing that the toy gun emoji could still be mistaken for a real gun. (Here s our previous coverage.)

 

Photo: An employee looks at the cyber threat monitor at the executive briefing center at FireEye in Milpitas on Feb. 23, 2015.  (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)

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