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Google discontinues calendar appointment slots, Exchange sync, Punchd, and more

It figures. As soon as I learn to love Google Calendar’s appointment slots feature, the company decides it is a “less-popular feature” and discontinues it.

Calendar appointment slots are one of a slew of features that Google is sunsetting today, …

The most unbelievable iPhone case ever (gallery)

The TaskOne combines features of a Leatherman, a bike repair tool, and an iPhone case. It's the ultimate in nerd phone protection.

How Jonah Peretti built BuzzFeed into a content-sharing powerhouse

The founder of Buzzfeed found success by ignoring Google search results and focusing obsessively on getting people to share content.

WordPress launches version 3.5, with new media-uploading tools

WordPress 3.5 offers a new, streamlined media-upload and gallery-creation tool for WordPress.org users.

Google News gets a tablet-friendly refresh

The new Google News layout for iPads and Android tablets is cleaner and more gesture-friendly.

Seesaw will help your friends help you make up your mind

Seesaw has raised a $1 to $1.5 million seed round and plans to use it to build an app that will help you get advice from your friends in real time.

Dylan’s Desk: How Microsoft can break the logjam of carrier anti-innovation

Microsoft could give its mobile operating system a boost by subsidizing phones itself, rather than waiting for carriers to do that.

Vint Cerf invented the Internet, and now he’s trying to save it

Vint Cerf, one of the cofounders of the Internet, is worried about an intergovernmental panel meeting this week that -- if his fears are confirmed -- might try to limit the net's "free and open" nature.

Twitter makes nice with developers, with a timeline of upcoming changes

Twitter's new calendar of upcoming API changes will help developers avoid nasty surprises.

Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet

Mary Meeker's huge, well-researched slideshows are a treasure trove of data on the state of the Internet. Here's her latest, with highlights called out by VentureBeat.

Social media skills can boost your company’s share price

Your company's social media strategy isn't just for publicity or customer service -- it can actually help boost your share price, a new study suggests.

Autonomy now a challenger for worst corporate acquisition ever

HP's failed acquisition of Autonomy is arguably even worse than the AOL-Time Warner merger in 2000. What's more, the company ignored a long list of warning signs about Autonomy ahead of the acquisition.

Rumors: VMWare planning Cloud Foundry spinoff led by Paul Maritz

VMWare is planning to spin off Cloud Foundry and a number of its other products into a separate division owned by corporate parent EMC.

New CloudBeat speaker: CloudOn

The latest addition to our event lineup at CloudBeat 2012 is CloudOn, a provider of an app for editing and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents from tablets and smartphones.

Autonomy founder lashes out at HP over failed acquisition

Autonomy founder Michael Lynch and HP, which acquired the company last year, are trading public statements over alleged financial improprieties at Autonomy that led HP to write off $8.8 billion recently.

Dylan’s Desk: 6 reasons CloudBeat will be the cloud event of the year

Our CloudBeat conference is happening this week, and if you want to learn about cloud technologies from people who are actually using them, this is the place you need to be.