Email encryption startup Lavaboom has declared bankruptcy. The German-based crowdfunded firm filed for bankruptcy this week, but the co-founder and CEO Felix Mller-Irion told TechCrunch the company wants users to keep encrypting their email. The company is giving users time to migrate their data to alternative encrypted email provider.

Mail Pilot for Mac has rolled out a new dashboard feature called Dash. The new tool lets email users see metrics on the emails they in their inbox to see which have been opened and which are still waiting on a response. The digital taskmaster gives users a quick glimpse at the inbox with easy access to files and contacts while locking users out of distractions.

Geronimo is a new email app for iOS devices including the Apple Watch that uses gestures to help users organize their inboxes. Users can read, delete and organize emails and decide how emails are displayed. The app was built by graduates of Apple, Google and Path developers who wanted an alternative to the Mail app.

Hackers have released emails sent by Ashley Madison founder Noel Biderman with a note saying, "Hey Noel, you can admit it's real now." The release comes after the infidelity site was hacked last month and the data was shared on BitTorrent earlier this week. After the data dump earlier in the week, Biderman said that the data could be fake. The latest dump aims to prove its authenticity.

Google has built a new website dedicated to Gmail Hangouts its own website. Unlike other products, Google has not removed Hangouts from Gmail. The new site is just another way that users can create a hangout in case the user wants to close its Gmail window.

The state of Minnesota's Microsoft Exchange email service went down this week, locking around 50,000 state and local government employees out of their email accounts. The employees were unable to receive incoming messages to their public accounts for most of the day on Wednesday. The agency's IT department said that there wasn't a security breach and that the disruption was caused by a glitch on Microsoft's end.

Emails on Hillary Clinton's server were erased before the device was turned over to authorities, Clinton's lawyer told a Senate committee this week. In a letter sent last week to the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Clinton's attorney David Kendall said that the data on the server was transferred to the FBI on Aug. 12 by Platte River Networks.

TechCrunch has launched seven new weekly newsletters. The tech site attributed the launch to the rise in reading on mobile devices. "After seeing massive growth on our daily newsletter over the past year, we decided to rethink the product and see what else we could offer to our die-hard readers," the site explained. The newsletters include: TC Week-in-Review, Mobile and Apps Week-in-Review, and Social Media Week-in-Review, among others.

About 10,000 email addresses associated with government officials and employees were found in the Ashley Madison data dump. The infidelity dating site was hacked into last month and hackers posted user profile data to a BitTorrent earlier this week. The trove of data include .gov addresses and email addresses linked to employees at the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Australian and British government officials.

Hillary Clinton has spoken out again against the criticism of her use of a private email server. The Democratic presidential hopeful has dismissed the investigations as political attacks. A federal judge is preparing for a hearing to look at a number of lawsuits over Clinton's emails while she served as Secretary of State.