The San Mateo, CA-based email marketing services firm Marketo has opened its first East Coast office in Atlanta. Right away, the company will be hiring up to 40 new employees to work in the office in engineering and sales. In addition, the company anticipates that the office will house up to 200 over the next two years. The new offices are located at 100 Tower Place in Buckhead.

Mark Simon, a leading aide to Chinese media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, has revealed that his email accounts have been hacked into. Despite the fact that he had recently changed his passwords, hackers were still able to gain access to his account. The revelation comes in the wake of leaked emails which claim that Chee-ying supports pan-democrats.

Supermarket chain Market Basket has created a program that allows employees to apply for internal positions at the company via email rather than requiring them to attend a job fair. The option comes as the outlet has been protesting work conditions and have called for the removal of the company CEO Arthur T. DeMoulas. The email program is aimed at letting job seekers apply for jobs within the corporation without having any run ins with other workers at these job fairs.

California governor Jerry Brown has sent out an email campaign to supporters pushing a $6-billion water bond in. In the email, Brown explained that the drought conditions in California are getting more serious by the day and acknowledges that something must be done to stop this impending problem. In the email, he explains that a $11.1-billion bond which is on the ballot for November is "pork-laden." Instead, he proposes a leaner plan developed by his office for a $6 billion bond that will help fund efforts to stop the drought.

Russian hackers have gained access to a massive amount of stolen personal data including the email logins of more than 500 million email addresses. According to a new report from security researchers at Hold Security, the hackers have been targeting both large and small commercial websites to steal this information. They have been using it to send spam messages which have been commissioned by other groups.

Email is much more effective for driving sales than social media marketing. According to a recent study by McKinsey and Company email outperforms social media's conversion rates by 40x. In addition, marketing generates 43 cents for every dollar ever spent, according to The Direct Marketing Association.

When online user ratings site Yelp got its start ten years ago, it was all about soliciting feedback via email. The recommendation engine would encourage users who were searching for a service to share their location and what they were looking for and then to share email contacts of other people in their area. Then Yelp would send an email to the provided email addresses and solicit others in the area or who expressed similar interests. The company then used the responses to help build up its database. If they didn't respond, Yelp would keep emailing.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has claimed that his staff does not use private email accounts to conduct official business, however the office has been caught in the act. The New York Times reports has revealed emails from Cuomo officials in which they have been conducting business from personal accounts.

Inbox Checkup is a new tool that lets Gmail users analyze their email habits. The tool, which was created by the company that invented the Front email app, lets users see how many emails they send on average, how many they actually reply to, how long it takes them to respond and how many emails they delete, among other things. The idea is to give users the ability to explore their own email productivity habits.

Google is now allowing users to Gmail users to use accented characters and non-Latin characters in their email address names. Users an now create email addresses with these characters or update their existing addresses to suit their native languages. The update is possible thanks to an update in email standards established by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) two years ago.