Wrte.io is a new service, available in beta, that lets email users get paid to receive an email. The tool pays email users with bitcoin. Users must sign up for an account and then share their email address. The user can set the price beginning at $.99. So far about 800 people have signed up for the beta service.

An email snowball has turned into a digital avalanche in Berkeley, CA which began when the president of the Council of Neighborhood Associations tried to send himself an email as a test. Instead of just landing in his own inbox, the email went out to thousands of registered voters in the town. The email was just called a test but instead of ignoring it, people began to question why it was sent and began relying all. The conversation quickly escalated and got heated ending in threats of legal action.

The State Department is not as bad at email security as they have let on. The department accidentally gave itself a bad score in the self-reporting tool, for a new report on email security issued by The White House. Coupled with a scoring system with hiccups, the department claims that it appears much worse off than it is when it comes to email security.

Bullhorn has released a new tool to help companies mine email data to learn more about-to-b customers. The Pulse CRM tool, which is available as an SaaS product, examines email interactions between a employees and customers to determine the health of the business relationship. The system includes an email-tracking system and integration with Outlook, Office 365 and Gmail.

Mixmax, is a new Chrome extension, that amps up Gmail accounts. The tool includes meeting scheduling that integrates with a user's Google calendar and allows users to send suggested email times. In addition, the tool has email tracking features and includes the ability to take polls.

Google is working on a new project that would allow Gmail users to pay their bills from within their inbox. The initiative is called Pony Express and will facilitate bill payment for telecommunications or utility bills without having to launch a new browser and visit a company's website.

Online hosting provider Host1Plus has teamed up with email delivery and security firm Halon Security to fight spam. Together, the two companies have built Halon Email Gateway, a tool that helps fight email attacks on Host1Plus users.

Twitch, a online game streaming service owned by Amazon, has emailed its user base revealing a security breach in its system. The company revealed that all passwords must be reset after an unauthorized entity gained access to its servers. The email revealed that hackers could have captured all user passwords in plain text.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning about an outbreak of spam emails that claim to be from the "Bureau of Defaulters," an nonexistent entity. The emails tell recipients that an "arrest warrant" is attached. These attachments are loaded with malware.

Yourbrowser.is offers tech support companies the free tools to assess a customer's browser version via email. They must email a link to gather information on the customer's browser. The customer just has to click on the link and it gathers their browser data and sends it back to the company via email.