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April 18, 2008 5:08 PM PDT

Report: AOL lays off 100 from ad unit

by Stephen Shankland

Time Warner's AOL division began a 100-person layoff Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The cuts came from the Platform-A group formed last September to offer ad inventory on its own and third-party Web sites. It will cut its employee count to about 1,500, the newspaper said. It quoted an AOL representative who said some people held redundant jobs from the consolidation of several groups into the division.

Last month, AOL replaced Curt Viebranz as the president of AOL with Lynda Clarizio, who had led the Tacoda component Platform-A.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.
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Awol
by oxtail01 April 18, 2008 11:39 PM PDT
Does anyone really care if AOL went away?
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Re:Awol
by dadsgravy April 19, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
There would be a few mongoloids spinning in circles and running
into walls, but no, no one would care.
floppies and cds
by Astinsan April 19, 2008 7:11 AM PDT
Its probably the people who send out cd's. I still have a file cabinet drawer full of the 1.44 floppy disks. I never kept the cds though. I never had to buy a floppy disk ever. Thanks AOL
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