Slack is a new startup that wants to eliminate email within the workplace. The company's platform allows companies to communicate internally without an inbox. Every member of the team can access every communication and an archive of communications. "Email is not going anywhere in the long term, maybe it's got a couple of decades left, at least, because it is the easiest way to cross organizational boundaries, but it is a terrible way to communicate inside of an organization," said Stewart Butterfield, Slack CEO and Founder, in a video interview with Bloomberg.

The Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado has warned consumers about a phishing scam that appears to come from the BBB. The scam email claims that there is a complaint against the recipient's business or that a customer has submitted a review of the business. the email contains a link to a malicious site, as well as a file to download a malicious file.

Stanford University's Department of Public Safety has have created an email address specifically to help students and faculty send in lost and found questions. People simply need to email lostandfoundsu@stanford.edu to submit lost and found requests. The joint email address serves 17 departments. Emails sent to the address are forwarded to point people in the various departments based on the report.

Artificial intelligence company x.ai has designed a virtual personal assistant that can arrange meetings based on email chains and a user's calendar. 'Amy' can learn the scheduling preferences of the user. The user must cc 'Amy' into an email chain request for meetings and she will take care of it. Based on the content in the emails, 'Amy' will suggest a date, time and location for the meeting and users can confirm participation.

Ladar Levison, the founder of the now shuttered email encryption firm Lavabit, has penned a piece for The Guardian explaining how the FBI and the US legal system prevented him from supplying truly private emails. In the piece, he details his legal battle with these government agencies, which led to the shutdown of his company. "I had a hard decision to make," he wrote. "I had not devoted 10 years of my life to building Lavabit, only to become complicit in a plan which I felt would have involved the wholesale violation of my customers' right to privacy. Thus with …

Google has updated its Gmail for Android app. The update brings with it the ability to save files to Google Drive and then the option to access them later on any Drive-friendly device. The upgrade also comes with a new navigation menu, as well as details about for messages land in the spam folder.

Attorney Kenneth Morrison, partner in charge of the asset finance and securitization practice of Kirkland & Ellis, made waves this week when he sent out a mass email criticizing his staffers for sending request emails his way. After criticizing people at his firm for not stepping up on taking on requests for new business in their own departments, he wrote a scathing "Top 10 Things That Would Otherwise Be in the Next Firmwide RFIs." The email has gone viral in legal communities.

The average U.S. adult spent 29 minutes a day checking email in 2013, according to a new report from GfK and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The survey also found that people spent an average of 37 minutes a day using social networks last year. People spent an average of 23 minutes a day watching online videos which included both professionally produced TV shows and movie to user generated videos on social networks.

Consumers open the majority of their emails on mobile devices, however it is difficult to get people who are opening these emails to click on links within an email, according to a new report from Campaign Monitor. The report looked at 6 million email marketing campaigns that the company had sent and discovered that 41 percent of email opens in 2013 came from a mobile device. Only 28 percent of the emails were opened on a desktop and 22 percent were opened through webmail.

Gesture-based email iPad app Mailbox has been updated to fix issues with its "reply" and "forward" capabilities. In addition, the update also brings along integration with App Links, Facebook's new initiative lets users quickly link between apps.