AOL lays off 80 at Digital City
America Online is laying off 80 workers at its Digital City guides, the third round of company cuts in recent weeks, CNET's NEWS.COM learns.
Citing redundancy in many positions, AOL laid off 24 employees in the corporate office and 56 others spread out over the 32 cities where it operates its Digital City guides. The sites provide regionally specific information such as entertainment listings in an effort to draw local advertising dollars.
The Digital City cuts follow layoffs ordered at AOL earlier this month. The company let go half the staff of its four-month-old Entertainment Asylum site, as well as most of those who report to its WorldPlay interactive games unit.
AOL is not the only local content service to have seen layoffs in the highly competitive market. Microsoft also laid off employees of its service, Sidewalk, also citing staff redundancies.
"We have to be flexible and nimble and keep an eye on the markets," Brackbill said.