MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL For Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) spring cleaning has been pushed up to winter cleaning. Last Friday Venkat Panchapakesan VP of Engineering for the company posted to the official Google blog announcing the discontinuation of 11 services including elements of Google Calendar Google Sync and Punchd an app that keeps loyalty punch cards on your smartphone. Overall this is not a lot of cutting but the sentiment at Google is clearly that the tech company needs to simplify like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). As Panchapakesan wrote in the post “Last January we renewed our resolution to focus on creating beautiful useful products that improve millions of ...