It looks like Macy's will be opening up a day early to begin its holiday shopping season. According to an email sent out to employees, the store will open at 6pm on Thanksgiving Day to kick off the season. "After careful consideration, we have decided to open at 6:00 PM (local time) on Thanksgiving," reads the email that has been circulating in the press. "Although this was not an easy decision, due to competitive pressure, we feel it is the right one for our customers and our company. There is no question that our customers are eager to begin their …

A new startup called Conspire has come to market with a new tool that allows LinkedIn users to connect with others based on the email addresses in their Gmail contact list. The tool analyzes a user's Gmail data and identifies people that they correspond with and then makes suggestions on who they should connect with on LinkedIn based on how often they email that person and how recently they have interacted.

Yesware, an email tracking tool for sales people, has been updated to include new integrations. The tool allows users to see which emails a prospect has opened and clicked on, and now it also supports PowerPoint presentation tracking as well as a built-in phone call tool. In addition, the tool also now supports for Microsoft Outlook.

Wells Fargo employee Tyrel Oates wants a raise, but went about asking for it in an unusual fashion. He sent out a mass email to the company's CEO John Stumpf ccing 300,000 employees asking for a $10,000 raise for everyone. In his email, he points out that the $3 billion cost is only a small piece of what the company earns a year, but would help boost morale among employees.

Jamie Estrada, a former campaign manager for New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, has received nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for breaking into Martinez's email account. Estrada, who worked for Martinez briefly in 2009, hacked into her account in 2010 and prevented email campaign messages from being sent to the intended recipients and ended up going to an account that he controlled.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has agreed to give Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille a list of names of people who were exchanging sexually explicit material using official email addresses. The scandal, which broke last week, alleges that dozens of officials sent thousands of messages containing sexually explicit content using their work email addresses.

John Killoran, CEO of @Pay, thinks that email could be the secret to mobile payments taking off. In an interview with Pymnts, he explained that while emails opens on the phone are high, transactions are low because of the multiple steps usually required for a customer to respond to an email offer on the phone. He believes that if consumers can make a purchase in less steps, then the power of email as a transaction generating channel will win out on the phone.

Voxa, an atlanta-based startup, has raised $2.5 million to help make email more efficient in the workplace. The company is working on technology that can monitors and measures employee inboxes and identifies customer problems immediately so that workers can be more responsive to clients.

Students at the Provost of University College London (UCL) received more than 3,000 emails in their inbox last night after a student sent out a mass email to all 29,000 students without adding a bcc. The email simply said "Bello," a phrase used in British comedy show Fonejacker. This led to a snowball of responses of people replying to the note. The school says that the sender did not originate from the school and was impersonating a UCL student.

The Australian Broadcast Corporation went off air for a brief period on Tuesday morning, after the news channel was hit with an email spam attack. The emails, which were sent to ABC's employees, included malware which infected some of the news station's broadcasting systems, creating technical difficulties.