The marketing department for the California basketball outfit the Golden State Warriors made an email mix up this week. The organization sent out an email with a subject line that told fans the team had beat the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 7. In reality the team lost the game and the body of the email explained that they fired their coach Mark Jackson. The outfit followed up the mistake with an Opps email explaining the real news.

Kevin Mandia, chief executive of security firm Mandiant, only checks his email on his iPad in order to avoid being hacked. His new behavior comes after the organization flagged a massive hack for the limousine-booking firm CorporateCarOnline which exposed the names, addresses and credit numbers of customers. Shortly thereafter, the hackers directed a phishing scam at Mandiant using PDFs of these limo invoices.

Indie music label Asthmatic Kitty has found that social media can help build their email list. The label started using "virtual street teams" in social networks to invite them onto the Asthmatic Kitty newsletter that they send through MailChimp. The label then sends a follow-up email with news about one specific act on based on the recipients click behavior. This approach generates a 70 percent higher open rate for subsequent emails about that act.

Al Jazeera has published email exchanges between the National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Google executives Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, which reveal a much closer relationship than Google has let on. While the tech giant has come out demanding disclosures and swearing loyalty to user privacy, the emails show that the company cooperated with the government without any legal pressure.

Though many investors have lost interest in daily deals, Groupon reported revenue of $757.60 million during the first quarter -- better than the $740 million Wall Street was expecting. Better yet, “Groupon is increasing its full year outlook, and now expects Adjusted EBITDA to exceed $300 million,” the company’s latest earnings report boasts. However, “Raising a non-GAAP figure is only so impressive,” according to TechCrunch. “Following its poorly received growth projections detailed in the fourth quarter of 2013, perhaps this was adjustment too little.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office has been accused of using private email accounts to conduct public business in order to avoid public scrutiny. Cuomo's Chief of Operations Howard Glaser allegedly used his private account to conduct official business. A Cuomo spokesman defended the email saying hat it was "an informal invitation to connect" and did not relate to official state business.

Comporium Communications has resolved a tech issue that shut down its email service over the weekend. The company reported a "tsunami of spam" late last week, in which they had so much spam coming into their spam filters that they were unable to deliver legitimate mail to customers. The issue has been resolved and now all legitimate emails are being delivered to users.

Email etiquette in the workplace has been attracting lots of headlines these days. French and German companies have banned after-hours work while Morgan Stanley analysts are complaining that there is no such thing as unable to respond to email. John Herrman, the new co-editor of The Awl, has now raised the issue of what he calls the "Sunday creep" in which people are sending emails to get ahead of the week on Sunday night. He concludes that this isn't the time to reply to email.

Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has resigned after 35 years with the retailer in light of the recent database breach. The massive holiday breach exposed the credit card numbers and email addresses of millions of customers. Since then the company has been working to rebuild its reputation, as it has faced a number of lawsuits.

Most of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who will be deciding the fate of email and online privacy legislation were born in the 1930s. AllGov.com argues that these justices and their sixty-something counterparts may not be best equipped to handle legislation on the topic, since they themselves don't use emails to communicate and still rely on memos to communicate.