The much-rumored AOL (NYSE: TWX) layoffs have been officially announced, at least internally…Kara has the memo here. “We refocused the business around three core areas – Platform-A, Publishing and Access – and are now managing these as three distinct but related components,” said CEO Randy Falco in the memo. Platform-A is its online and mobile ad serving and advertising business.

“This realignment will allow us to increase investment in high-growth areas of the company – as an example, we added hundreds of people this year through acquisitions – while scaling back in areas with less growth potential or those that aren’t core to our business, as we did with the sale of Tegic.” So it rests for now, until more rumors of the age-old Time Warner-divesting-off-AOL crop up, again.

In December, AOL completed a major layoff of nearly 5,000 worldwide as part of a major restructuring.

Meanwhile, a small side story: AOL’s EVP and head of HR at its Dulles, Virginia, headquarters, Lance Miyamoto, quit the company last Thursday, though he didn’t elaborate on circumstances beyond “I have left” (via WaPo).

Updated: About 1,200 of these cuts will happen tomorrow, most in U.S. and the rest will happen in Europe and India, reports Saul. Employees will be given a severance package of at least four months pay.