Former National Security Agency security cloud expert Will Ackerly has co-founded a new company called Virtru, a company that promises to truly encrypt emails. The company has launched a product called Trusted Data Format, an email encryption tool that was designed with Ackerly's NSA experience in mind. The system is focused on transmitted secure email across major email clients, including Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook. The tool encrypts contents on a user's device then sends the communication to the recipient leaving the encryption key out of the message.

Google has finally delivered a backlog of legitimate messages that were caught in its Postini spam filter by mistake at the end of February. It took the company a week and a half to fix the issue despite getting to work on the issue right after it was discovered. "The problem with Postini Services should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support," reads a post on the Google blog. "All messages that were Quarantined as a result of this issue have now been redelivered."

The Environmental Working Group faced a big problem last year -- the fundraising emails it sent to Gmail users were going to the spam folder. This was a huge loss, since the majority of people on their list were Gmail users. To address the issue, the nonprofit cleaned up its list and cut out the names on the list that had not opened an email from the charity in six months. They had stricter parameters for Gmail users, cutting everyone on the list who hadn't opened and clicked in six months. The cleanup reduced the charity's list by a third …

The Cuban government's telecommunications monopoly has approved smartphone access to the country's nauta.cu system. The Telecommunications Enterprise of Cuba, known as ETECSA will offer the service for about $1.20 in U.S. dollars per megabyte, an excessively expensive rate. This new deal will be the first time that smartphones in Cuba have access to any data service.

Capital One will soon allow customers to exchange money via email and text message. The bank will add this service using ClearXchange, a bank-owned platform that facilitates these kinds of transactions. The goal is to make it easier for customers to transfer money without having to write a check.

Email services firm Movable Ink, which sells tools to add real time content to emails, has launched a new platform called agileEMAIL. The new platform builds on the company's existing tools and turns it into one big picture dashboard. As they could before, marketers can use Movable Ink embed live and personalized content into emails.The full platform brings the ability to create email campaigns and analyze the results.

Fox News host Mike Huckabee has come under scrutiny for allowing questionable sponsors to send emails to his email list. He told Media Matters that he is "simply a conduit to send messages" and "can't always vouch for the veracity" of the promoted products. He defended his position explaining that the emails disclaimer. Huckabee is one of many politicians who rents out his email list to third parties. Recently, Huckabee sent a sponsored emails on behalf of a shady doctor promoting the doctor's questionable Alzheimer's disease cures. This scandal came after Fox News contributor Scott Brown had to distance himself …

Despite selling his email marketing services company Blue Sky Factory to WhatCounts in 2011, Greg Cangialosi has not settled down. Along with two partners, the tech executive has launched Betamore, a firm designed to help incubate tech-based startup companies and teach them skills. In addition, Cangialosi is also serving as the managing member of Baltimore Angels, an investment group for early stage technology-based startups. In addition, he is serving as CEO of MissionTix, an online event ticketing platform.

Google has updated is Gmail app for iOS. The update includes a new tool that allows users to fetch mail in the background, so that new mail will be delivered to the inbox even when the app is not open. For this new feature to work, users must turn notifications off. The update also includes a new sign-in process that makes it easier to sign in across apps. Once a user has signed into the Gmail app, they will be automatically signed into Google's other iOS apps.

Email campaigns that included a coupon saw 43 percent higher revenues than emails that did not include a coupon, according to a new report from Experian. The report also revealed that emails with coupons have a 14 percent higher average open rate than emails without coupons, and 34 percent higher click through rates and 27 percent higher transaction rates than other emails.