Almost half (42%) of email marketers send the same exact same email to every person on their list, according to a new report from GetResponse. The State of Email Marketing By Industry, which includes survey responses from 1,831 marketers, also revealed that 75 percent of marketers use email automation.

Wealthbox, a CRM platform for financial advisers, has released the latest version of its system to integrate Gmail accounts. The integration will allow advisers with Gmail accounts to import contacts to Wealthbox, add client notes and send and archive emails to Wealthbox. The free extension is available with Google Chrome.

Almost half of marketing and sales professionals think that communication is the biggest challenge preventing alignment, according to a new study from market intelligence firm InsideView. InsideView CMO Tracy Eiler said that cloud services have the opportunity to help these departments overcome their issues.

The data-driven marketing economy increased 35 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to new research from The Direct Marketing Association. Revenues from this sector reached $202 billion in 2014. According to Harvard Business School professor John Deighton, this sector represents a bit under 20 percent of the marketing industry.

Neo Nazi organization National Alliance has had its email server hacked. An anonymous source stole email exchanges between the organization's chairman and several of his executive team and leaked them online.

House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz plans to continue a federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's email scandal as part of a review of the federal government's record keeping. Still Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy have said that the investigation should be in the hands of the FBI and the Justice Department.

Tax services TaxSlayer has experienced a data breach, which exposed the user records of 8,800 customers. The data, which the company blamed on an unauthorized third party, was identified on January 13 ,and is now being fixed. User names and passwords may have been accessed by hackers during the breach.

Seventy percent of marketers think that enhancing the quality of their email list is one of their most important objectives, according to a new report. According to the "Email List Strategy Survey Summary Report" conducted by Ascend2, 46 percent of marketers report that their email list quality is increasing, while 38 percent say it's not changing and 16 percent report that it is decreasing.

Just before the Iowa caucus, Ted Cruz's campaign started a rumor claiming that Ben Carson had dropped out of the race. Carson's staff blamed their poor showing in Iowa on the untrue rumor. "Breaking News. The press is reporting that Dr. Ben Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week," read the email.

When he was senator, Secretary of State John Kerry sent at least one email to Hillary Clinton from his personal account. The revelation came this week as part of the release of Clinton emails in the ongoing investigation of her use of a personal email server while she led the State Department. The message was classified and discussed India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.