AOL (NYSE: TWX) plans to lay off roughly 100 staffers from its Platform-A ad agency network over the coming months, sources say, confirming an earlier report from SAI. While roughly a dozen staffers may have been laid off immediately, most will come over several weeks, sources tell us. An AOL rep said that layoffs are planned to eliminate “redundancies,” the company is not specifying how many of Platform-A’s 1,500 staffers are being let go. AOL released a statement: “These steps are necessary to guarantee that Platform-A
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