• Gmail Update to Bring Oauth Support for Microsoft & Yahoo Users
    Google has plans to make it more secure for email users that access third party email accounts on Android. Yahoo and Microsoft accounts accessed through Android will soon be run through Android's OAuth security system so that users don't need to add usernames and passwords to their Android Gmail app in order to add these services. Gmail will now gain authorization through Yahoo and Microsoft.
  • Mark Benioff Says Marc Cuban is Wrong About Tech Bubble
    Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff thinks that Marc Cuban is wrong in his claims that a tech bubble worse than the one in the 2000s is set to hit. "I don't think there's a bubble," Benioff said in an interview with CNN. "I think there's a huge amount of innovation in Silicon Valley that's getting monetized."
  • Companies in the UK That Are Sending More Than a Million Emails Increases
    More companies in the UK are sending more email, according to a recent report from Econsultancy. The report revealed that the number of companies sending more than 1 million emails a month has grown from 15 percent in 2010 to 22 percent in 2015. The research also revealed that about 40 percent of these companies are only spending GBP5,000 per year on email.
  • Tool to Unsend Emails Raises $500K
    Criptext, a company that offers a tool designed to help users unsend an email after it has been sent, has raised $500,000. The tool works as a browser extension for Gmail and Outlook and even allows users to pull emails that have already been sent and opened.
  • MailTime App Raises $1.2 M
    MailTime app has received $1.2 million in funding. The app makers are hoping to change how we use email and make it more like using chat or sending an SMS. The funding will help the company expand this mission. The app also includes features such as to do lists and the ability to assign tasks, to make it compete with collaboration platforms.
  • Bank of England Kills Auto Complete Email Feature After Employee Blunders
    The Bank of England has gotten rid of the autocomplete feature in its email platform in order to avoid embarrassing mistakes. The move comes after the bank's head of press accidentally sent an email to the press revealing that officials were researching the impact of Britain's exit from the EU as well as revelations about a secret project called Project Bookend. Both mistakes came after employees used the auto complete function in their inboxes and sent the emails to the wrong people.
  • How U.S. Citizens Have Changed Digital Behaviors Based on the Patriot Act: Breaking Down the Metrics
    U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has publicly stated that 25 percent of people in the U.S. have changed their email and phone habits due to the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act. Politifact has fact checked this statement with The Pew Foundation, who did the report. The report found that people had changed their use of an individual technology "a great deal" or "somewhat," but the amount differed across channels. For instance, 17 percent of people changed their search behavior and 13 percent changed their text messaging behavior. The 25 percent figure comes from those people who have changed …
  • Mixmax Improves Gmail Experience For Chrome Users
    Mixmax, a free Chrome extension, is designed to help Gmail users better manage their inboxes. The email management tool helps users schedule meetings more easily, see who has read their emails and schedule emails for future send dates using templates.
  • GoDaddy Defends Itself Against Accusations of Discriminatory Email
    GoDaddy has defended itself against claims that the company discriminated against a job applicant because of his weight and religion, which the applicant allegedly discovered in an email from the company. In a blog post, the company sent a standard rejection form letter to applicant Keith Connolly. Connolly claims that the rejection included an email which read: "about keith he's great for the job skills but he looks worse for wear do we really want an obeese (sic) christian? is that what our new image requires of us.' GoDaddy contends that the offensive email does not exist in Connolly's applicant …
  • Medium Brings Email Feature to Blogging Platform
    Medium, a blogging service created by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, has released a new tool to allow blog editors to email audiences. The feature is called "letters" and empowers users that have created a "publication" to email news updates to their readers.
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