It might be a little bit annoying to get an email notification every time you have a Facebook notification, however, Lifehacker offers a good reason to do so. It makes the archive searchable. If you turn on Facebook's email notifications, and use it with a Gmail account, you can add a filter that automatically marks these messages as read so that you don't have to sift through all of these messages. In doing so, this stream of information becomes searchable.

Google may be redesigning the mobile interface for Gmail. While the update hasn't been released, Android Police noticed a new version of Gmail being shown off during a talk at the Android I/O conference. The update has a number of new features including a new navigation drawer that lets users switch between "Inbox" and "Priority Inbox;" without first going to the "All Labels" screen.

Almost 60 percent of small businesses are trying to grow their email lists "at all times," according to a new report from Constant Contact, which surveryed more than 700 small businesses and nonprofits. Why are they growing their lists, asked the email services provider for the study. Forty-four percent said that repeat business was the primary reason, while 39 percent said customer relationship building was their main incentive and 12 percent said that engaging customers for referrals was the main reason for list building.

Email is the most effective marketing tactic, according to 55% of the marketing professionals who were interviewed for a recent Listrak study. In addition, according to MarketingSherpa's Email Marketing Benchmark Survey from 2013, 71% of b-to-c email marketers said that growing and retaining subscribers was a goal over the next year in order to help increase ROI.

Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1 billion this week. The company has come a long way in the past few years. Back in 2008, it was just a small startup when Jacob Bijani, an early Tumblr user, sent founder David Carp an email asking about a job listing. He wrote: "I was wondering if you are still looking to fill the position for creative developers." The job was full, but Carp, who had started following Bijani on Tumblr after he made some custom templates for the platform blogs, offered Bijani a job.

Twitter is working on a new kind of media to sell to advertisers called "custom audiences," a personalized ad buy which is based on a consumer's email address. According to reports, advertisers can share their customers' email addresses with Twitter who will match it up to Twitter users, so that these companies can send targeted ads on Twitter based on the purchase behavior associated with an email address.

Bookseller Half Price Books used an integrated digital marketing campaign on Facebook and email to generate almost 14,000 in-store sales. Working with email services firm ExactTarget, the book retailer launched a "Booklover's Weekend" Facebook tab offering Fans an opportunity to receive get a coupon for signing up for the company's email list. In about a month, the effort generated 36,000 new email subscribers.

A police officer in the Bronx is accused of paying $4,050 to an email-hacking service in order to illegally obtain the usernames and passwords for 43 email inboxes. It is believed that he made the purchase in order to access the email account of his ex-girlfriend. After getting the illegal log-in credentials, he is accused of accessing at least one personal email account belonging to another officer.

The Australian Taxation Office has already received 11,000 reports of scam emails related to taxes in Q1 2013, which is 3x as many as the same time period in 2012. For all of 2012, the office recorded 26,000 scam emails. These spam emails ask citizens to share personal information such as bank account information.

Have you ever wondered how long Nigerian princes have been asking for bank account numbers? It's an old problem. NPR talks with Boston Globe correspondent Finn Brunton about the history of the "Nigerian prince" or "419" scam, a scam that has its roots before email was around.