An email ‘autodiscover’ bug is helping to leak thousands of Windows passwords
Shipping companies, power plants and investment banks don’t often share much in common, but new research shows they are all inadvertently leaking thousands of email passwords of their own employ
Mailman’s new Gmail assistant aims to tame your inbox
A new startup, Mailman, recently launched an email assistant that helps Gmail users to get better control over their inbox. Unlike many email startups, which require users to switch to a new platform
Spike raises $8 million to make your email look like a chat app
Asynchronous chat apps like Slack have done their best to kill email, but maybe the key to chat replacing email is just making email look like chat? That’s the idea of Spike, a productivity star
New email service, OnMail, will let recipients control who can send them mail
A number of startups over the years have promised to re-invent email only to have fallen short. Even Google’s radical re-imagining, the Inbox app, finally closed up shop last year. Today, anothe
Shared inbox startup Front raises $59 million round led by other tech CEOs
Front is raising a $59 million Series C funding round. Interestingly, the startup hasn’t raised with a traditional VC firm leading the round. A handful of super business angels are investing directl
JD founder cautions logistics business must tighten belt
Alibaba’s arch-foe JD.com has long prided itself on owning and controlling its logistics services: couriers are treated as in-house staff and paid a basic income. But that will end soon as costs
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts
On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email
Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email
Google today officially launched AMP for Email, its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences. AMP for Email is coming to Gmail, but other major email provide
Mail digitizing service Earth Class Mail acquires receipt digitizing service Shoeboxed
Earth Class Mail, a company that digitizes your physical mail so you don’t have to go to the mailbox every day, today announced that it has acquired receipt scanning and expense tracking service
Gmail for iOS and Android now lets you turn off conversation view
When Gmail launched with its threaded conversation view feature as the default and only option, some people sure didn’t like it and Google quickly allowed users to turn it off. On mobile, thou
Google’s Advanced Protection program now allows access from Apple’s mobile apps, too
Last October, Google launched its Advanced Protection Program for users who want to ensure the highest degree of protection for the data they store in services like Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive. U
Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive
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Startup initiatives from Down Under may offer inspiration to the failing US Postal Service
Earlier this week, the US Postal Service reported another dismal quarter of financial results. It’s the latest in a string of bad news for a national service that has been in slow decline since
Yahoo Mail rolls out a rebuilt, redesigned service, including a new ad-free option
Following its Verizon acquisition, Yahoo today is rolling out a revamped and rebuilt Mail application for its 225 million monthly active users. The update includes a new design, feature set, and techn
The post office will now email you photos of your mail before it’s delivered
Informed Delivery is a service from the United States Postal Service that scans the outside of your mail and shows you the images each morning before the mail is actually delivered. While you still wo
Apple unbundles its native apps like Mail, Maps, Music and more, puts them in the App Store
Apple today has made a big change to its suite of native applications for iOS devices, like Mail, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, Watch, Weather and others: it's now making these available as standalone
EasilyDo’s speedy new mail app puts a smart assistant in your inbox
Productivity app maker EasilyDo is best known for its smart assistant for iPhone that lets you do things like organize your travel plans, track shipments, update your contacts, create personalized ema
ProtonMail’s encrypted email service exits beta, adds iOS, Android apps
As Apple continues to battle the US Government's desire to work around the security of its mobile operating system, European encrypted email startup, ProtonMail, is choosing the latest skirmish in the
Spark, The Mailbox Alternative, Lands On The iPad
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app sports a number of popul
Google Inbox Gets Sharable Trip Bundles, Improved Photo Attachments
Inbox by Gmail, Google's next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundle emails about an upcoming trip into a