Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz thinks that the world has hit peak email and foresees a future without email at work. His new company Asana aims to deliver just this, "teamwork without email." Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein explained the idea to Wired. "All the email and meetings, all that work about work, all this soul-sucking effort, is not real work. It's a distraction," he said. "If we can get rid of that distraction so we can actually get some work done, that just totally opens the doors."

After the various scandals broke revealing Chris Christie's potential involvement in withholding funds from Sandy victims and for allegedly disrupting traffic on the George Washington Bridge, Donald Trump said that, "he's one email away from a disaster." Emails have put the governor of New Jersey at the center of the scandals. Trump gave his warning at an event Tuesday morning at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Sixteen million email users in Germany have had their passwords stolen, according to revelations from Germany's Federal Office for Security. Cyber criminals gained access to the email addresses and account passwords through attacks involving computers infected with malware. The agency has yet to say how they plan to stop the hackers, but they have set up a website that allows citizens to see if they are victims of the hack.

Email volume went up 13 percent during the 2013 holiday season as compared to the 2012 season, according to a new report from Experian Marketing Services. In addition, the final 10 days of the holiday season saw email volume go up 35 percent. The research also revealed that the number of total transactions directly attributable to email marketing campaigns went up 9 percent during the time frame. The majority (65 percent) of email from multichannel retailers were opened during the season happened on mobile phones.

U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, a former chief judge in Montana, has admitted to sending hundreds of other inappropriate messages including forwarding a racist email about President Obama from his court email account. The racist email compared the president to a dog. The Great Falls Tribune initially obtained the email last year prompting the proceedings. Cebull retired shortly after the scandal.

University College of Oxford, one of 38 schools that make up the university, has apologized to students after a university official accidentally sent an email with information about academic scores and the names of students that are not doing well to its entire email list. The email included a list of the names of students that had failed to do well on their first semester exams.

Email is not dead. In fact, email is almost 40 times as effective as social media as a way to acquire new customers, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. Having consumers "like" campaigns on Facebook or tweet about a product is nice, but is not nearly as effective for forming relationships with consumers and driving transactions as emails. "If you're wondering why marketers seem intent on e-mailing you more and more," the report reveals, "there's a simple explanation: it works."

Insurance company Aviva increased its car and home insurance quotes after implementing a 'send more email' program. Prior to adopting the campaign, the company only sent emails to prospects in the month before they were up to resign their policy. Last year the company created a new approach and began mailing to prospective customers throughout the year working with email agency Alchemy Worx. This new strategy helped the insurance company increase unique email clicks by 304 percent.

Analyst Andrey Komarov, CEO of the Los Angeles-based IntelCrawler, has attributed a Russian teen as the culprit for Target's major data breach that took place during the busy holiday shopping season. The company identified six ongoing attacks while analyzing Web traffic seeking to find the source of the malware infection that revealed the personal information including email addresses and credit card details of millions of Target customers. IntelCrawler also claims that the author of the BlackPOS malware attacks also targeted Neiman Marcus.

The Michigan Supreme Court has issued a warning telling consumers not to open emails that appear to come from the state's courts. The email accuses recipients of using "illegal software" and instructs them to download the attached complaint. The attachment contains malware that tries to glean personal information from the user's computer. Michigan is not alone. Georgia and Louisiana have recently issued similar warnings.