• Clinton Laughs Off Suggestions of Prosecution For Email Scandal
    Hillary Clinton laughed at Chris Christie's comment that she should be prosecuted for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Clinton said that no national security secrets were obtained from the server.
  • Gmail Extension Bananatag Helps Senders Track Opens
    Bananatag is a new extension for Gmail users that is intended to help email senders track the outcomes of their messages. The tool allows the applicant to see if their email has been opened and if so, which attachments have been opened and which pages have been skipped. The app also lets users schedule messages, set up email reminders, and see in real time if a recipient has clicked a link in the email.
  • Russian Court Fines Google For Targeting Ads Based on Gmail Conversations
    A Russian court has fined Google 50 thousand rubles ($765) for 'violating correspondence secrecy' laws in the country by targeting online ads based on the content of emails in a user's Gmail account. The decision from charges brought by a Russian citizen against the tech giant. Anton Burkov, deputy head of European law department at the Yekaterinburg Humanitarian University, sued Google after he noticed that ads were based on his correspondence.
  • Epsilon Brings Dynamic Content to Email
    Epsilon has updated its Agility Harmony content platform with a new feature that allows marketers to dynamically change the content of an email after it has been opened. The Harmony Live tool comes from Epsilon's partner PowerInbox. It allows the brand to identify attributes like zip code and device so that the company can tailor the offer based on the consumer's experience.
  • Engagement Drives Conversion: IBM
    Engagement helps drive conversion, according to a new report from IBM. IBM's 2015 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study, which includes email marketing trends from some 3,000 brands across the globe, found that customers demand "perfect moments" from brands which includes things like deals on items in real time on the right devices.
  • Tribe Turns the Inbox Into a Personal Assistant
    Chicago startup Tribe wants to turn the email inbox into a task management tool. The platform works like an "invisible personal assistant that lives in your inbox." The tool creates task lists based on email conversations. Users can curate these lists by forwarding emails with tasks to Task@Tribe.do. Tribe then scans the email and automatically creates a task.
  • Email Scandal is Leading the Clinton Conversation in The Minds of Voters
    While Hillary Clinton is running on her goals to improve economy, focus on the middle class and to enact more gun control, email is the major issue associated with her campaign, according to a recent poll from Gallup. The company surveyed 750 U.S. adults and asked them what things come to mind when thinking about Clinton. The research found that the word "email" came up 329 times and there were 83 mentions of "server." While "economy" and "the middle class" only came up four times.
  • Google Accuses Congress of Creating Distractions to Avoid Updating Email Privacy Law
    Google was among a number of technology advocates at a Senate hearing last night that accused federal agencies of creating "distractions" from updating email privacy law. "We certainly appreciate the concerns that have been raised in the rather long debate about this provision, but I'm afraid these are really just distractions," said Richard Salgado, Google's director of law enforcement and information security at the hearing. The hearing was the first for Congress to revise the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) which allows the government to use a subpoena, rather than a warrant, to require tech companies to hand over emails …
  • Microsoft Releases Send on Android
    Microsoft has expanded its email app Send to Android users and to international users. The app, which the company launched in July, aims to combine email and instant messaging for Office 365 users. At launch it was available for iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada. Now it is available to users in the UK, Brazil and Denmark on both iOS and Android devices.
  • Clinton Makes Fun of Email Scandal on The Tonight Show
    Hillary Clinton was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night and she took the opportunity to make fun of her email scandal. "The stuff that's in it, I think, is really boring people," she said about the emails release from her private server, "which kind of hurts my feelings."
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