Mailbox, the popular email mobile app company that was snapped up by Dropbox earlier this year, will be available as a desktop version of its app sometime down the road. Orchestra CEO Gentry Underwood explained that the move is necessary to stay competitive while giving a keynote presentation at the DEMO Europe conference in Moscow this week.

Email is stressing people out, discovered a team of researchers led by professor Tom Jackson of Loughborough University. The researches followed a group of thirty government employees and discovered that 83 percent got more stressed while using email, and 92 percent got stressed when speaking on the phone and using email at the same time. The researchers analyzed heart rate, blood pressure and saliva samples to measure stress hormones, which were highest when email inboxes were full.

Online marketing tools giant Salesforce.com has agreed to buy digital marketing services firm ExactTarget, a company that offers email marketing software, for $2.5 billion. The acquisition is the largest in Salesforce's history, though the company is not new to acquisition. In the past year, the company has bought up eight companies including Buddy Media, a company that helps brands manage Facebook and Twitter pages.

Britain's Defense Secretary Philip Hammond, Home Secretary Theresa May and former police minister Nick Herbert are pushing for a controversial Communications Data Bill to be reintroduced. The bill would require Internet service companies to keep the email and social media records of users and let police access the data, though not the content of the messages. Supporters hope that the ruling will make it easier for British officials to fight terrorism. Critics claim that the bill infringes on privacy.

German courier company Deutsche Post has filed a complaint to the European Commission against a German law that will require government agencies and public services to use a competitor's email system. According to Deutsche Post, a bill that will require these German organizations to use "De-Mail", an email platform from Deutsche Telekom and United Internet, violates EU laws in that it discriminates against Deutsche Post's email service "E-Postbrief".

French technology startup company Kiwup has introduced a new email newsletter plaform called Stamplia. The tool lets publishers and marketers purchase templates for email newsletters from web designers who can sell their HTML wares, along with transactional emails and signup forms. The idea is to connect companies with better designs and help them focus on the content of their message.

A British telecommunications company is moving the default email service for its customers away from Yahoo Mail and over to BT Mail, after a number of customers reported that their Yahoo accounts were hacked. Yahoo will only lose about 6 million users, a drop in the bucket of its 280 million worldwide user base. But still, it doesn't look good for the company which has been experiencing a high number of spam and hacking complaints in recent months.