Retail Rocket, a retention management platform for retailers, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding rounds led by Flintera. In addition, the company has acquired SailPlay, a startup that raised $3.3 million prior to the acquisition. 

Yahoo Mail suffered an outage on Tuesday, prompting an outpouring of comments in social media. The company said it is working on the glitch. 

Email marketers may be hurting their email conversion rates by not taking mobile into account. Here is an infographic showing the biggest mistakes brands make when sending emails to mobile devices. 

Skiff is a beautifully designed alternative to Gmail. But it is missing too many table-stakes features, Jared Newman argues. 

Don’t look now, but the holiday 2022 season is creeping up on us -- and email marketers need to plan. Ryan Phelan offers an early check-in before the madness begins. 

Apple’s new operating systems will support BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification). Here’s why this is important. 

Google is about to force some users to pay for the once-free Gmail service. Firms with a G Suite Legacy Free Edition account must transition to a paid Workspace account by June 27 and start paying by August 1.

Microsoft’s email outage this week was caused by an infrastructure power loss. The affected services included  Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Universal Print, and the Graph API.

Marketing has been disrupted by the events of the past two years. But brands can thrive by using two well-matched technologies: CRM and marketing automation. Joe Greenspan explains why. 

Google has started locking down its services so that users must provide their Google passwords to access Thunderbird, Outlook and other email clients. Previously, passwords could be saved.