Online retailer Overstock reported that orders grew 9 percent during Q3 2015, which helped drive double digit year-over-year sales. To keep up the momentum, the company plans to expand its loyalty program, which currently has 19 million members across the different tiers. To do so, the company is going to begin testing how to encourage customers to respond to reward emails like they do with discount coupons.

Sixty-nine percent of British professionals don't realize that they could be vulnerable to cyber attack simply by opening an email, according to a new report from Mailjet. The research revealed that almost half of those surveyed admit to opening personal and non-work related emails while at work, which could put themselves at risk to spam. The survey also found that 18 percent of people would open an email with a swear word in the subject line.

Readdle's Spark email app is now supporting Microsoft Exchange email accounts. The app has smart features to help users manage their inboxes by weeding out the notifications and newsletters and feeding personal messages to the top of the inbox. The app already supports Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Outlook and IMAP accounts.

The Peace Corps cannot add email services to an existing delivery order for Microsoft licenses without opening the follow-on contract to competitive bids, The Government Accountability Office has decided. The decision came after a Google Government reseller Onix Networking filed a complaint in July.

Email security is better than it was two years ago, but there is still room for improvement, according to new research published by Michael Bailey, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan and Google.

The Cuban government has shuttered the country's only email service provider. The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) announced this week that it has to "completely stop email services" in the country. The government did not say why or when it might return.

Yahoo Mail is reportedly keeping people that use ad blockers out of their email accounts. According to a message board on the popular Adblock Plus tool, a Yahoo users couldn't get into his account when he was using an ad blocker. Yahoo Mail users have taken to Twitter to complain.

When the National Security Agency was exposed for the bulk collection of of American emails in 2013, the government said that the program had been shut down in 2011. New documents reveal that the agency had just found another way to read emails in bulk. The change has allowed the agency to analyze social links of citizens' email patterns, without collecting the data in bulk from American telecommunications companies.

B-to-b companies prefer emails that are professional, rather than overly friendly, according to research from Iris. The report found that 63 percent of people delete b-to-b email marketing messages, yet 55 percent of respondents do not unsubscribe from email lists when a company occasionally sends them something valuable.

Irish utility company Electric Ireland has issued a warning about an email scam in circulation that aims to dupe customers into sharing personal financial information. The company told customers that it did not send out the email and is urging recipients to delete the message without clicking on any links. The company attributed the spam to a phishing scam.