Another day, another email organizing app for the iPhone. Today's release is called Inbox Cube. The app lets users manage their inboxes using "Cubes." The "Cubes" displays messages along with a snippet under each subject line. Users can use a multitouch gesture to expand the email list in order to view larger previews of the content. Users can also swipe left on any message to get a drop down of commands. The app supports email services including iCloud, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo.

The FBI has revealed that three Washington state businesses were victims of an email fraud scheme to the tune of $1.65 million. The companies were victims of a "man-in-the-middle" email scam in which fraudsters began intercepting legitimate emails between purchasing and supply companies overseas in China. The scammers then began to impersonate each company and send both sides of the emails soliciting payments. The companies thought they were sending money to their Chinese suppliers, but instead the money was routed into the bank accounts of scammers.

Delivery.com has found that sending geographically targeted emails is the way to their customer's stomachs. The company uses geo coordinates to locate more than 10,000 merchants in the delivery range of its customers. About once a week, Delivery.com sends an email featuring a few restaurants that are offering deals to customers nearby. The emails go out just before breakfast, lunch or dinner depending on what's on the menu. The emails are targeted by location. Since the company launched its email program, delivery.com has seen a 25 percent increase in active buyers, a 3 percent increase in average order value, and …

New Zealand communications service provider Telecom was hacked into this week and hackers gained access to the personal email accounts of 450,000 Telecom customers. Telecom uses Yahoo as its email provider to support customer's accounts. Spammers used these accounts to send out malware. Telecommunications Users Association chief executive Paul Brislen is calling for the company to drop Yahoo so that this issue does not happen again.

Volkswagen, Goldman Sachs, and BMW are among brands that are asking employees not to check their email at home, some going so far as to render it inaccessible outside of the office. The reason for this new trend is that companies are noticing that to be successful, employees must take time off and have a break from work. The rise of smartphones and the ability to be 'always on' is not always a good thing for workers and can lead to worker burn out. The new trend is designed to push workers to take time off.

Dark Mail, the new email encryption project that is being borne out of the former Silent Circle and the former Lavabit, has raised $212,000 through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. The project exceeded its goal to raise $196,608. The money will fund the Dark Mail email protocol and pay for programmers to join the team. Once it is up and running, Dark Mail will release an end-to-end secure email service.

Former attorney Nikhil Palekar has launched a new startup that aims to solve the email security problem. Palekar's company is called Nveloped. It was launched to try to make email more secure. The platform works by delivering email as a shell that is only populated with content when the email is delivered. The recipient is then served the email dynamically when the message is opened.

A hacker took over the email account of the political group Yes Scotland this weekend and sent out an email criticizing the party. The hacker sent an email mocking the party's security writing, "This is yet another expos of the poor security and user practices in place by individuals associated with Yes Scotland." They sent the email to senior political figures including Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

During this busy holiday season, online shoppers will be getting lots of email receipts in their inboxes. The Better Business Bureau is warning shoppers to be careful to make sure that the receipts are from the stores that they are shopping at. A recent scam has been going around in which spammers are soliciting information from consumers in the form of a fake email receipt. These emails are being used to collect personal data about consumers, as well as to download malware onto computers.

Spam emails claiming to be from PayPal are going around the world for the past couple of days. These fake messages say that recipients will have limited access to their PayPal account because they allegedly didn't share enough personal data. They contain links for a consumer to supposedly update their profile. If a consumer follows the link and shares information, the spammer will gain access to their PayPal account.