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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong didn't have to go very far to discover his company was struggling. He just asked one of his employees

You wouldn't want to miss Michael Arrington publicly needling his AOL bosses Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington. "Do you see acquiring more content companies like TechCrunch and HuffPo?" Michael Arrington pointedly asked his boss-and-AOL chief Tim Armstrong earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the annual tech conference and start-up competition put on in New York by the site Arrington founded and co-edits. There was an uncomfortable silence

Who the hell still uses MapQuest? Unless you're driving down the highway listening to "Da Da Da" circa 1997, with printed-out directions sitting on the passenger-side seat of your Volkswagen Golf Cabrio, you've likely moved on to better mapping software from Google or Bing. Unless you're Arianna Huffington, that is, and you own a hefty stake in AOL, which purchased MapQuest in the early aughts