Companies such as Google, PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to create a standard to help boost email security. They are part of a working group to create the DMARC standard, which will help cut down on the number of phishing attacks. Read More »
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SendGrid, a TechStars graduate, has become one of largest email platforms in the world by handling the boom in transactional emails that web application send out to stay in touch with users. The company is announcing it has raised a $21 million Series B round. Read More »
LiveIntent, a New York City-based start-up is announcing today the release of LiveIntent for Publishers, a self-serve tool that allows companies that send out email newsletters, notifications and other communications to place ads that are served up in real-time like online display ads. Read More »
Movable Ink has raised $1.3 million for its real-time email marketing platform and is launching a new app gallery for customers. The company plans to use the money to build out its platform and move into verticals such as retail, publishing, travel, ticketing and events. Read More »
Call it the enterprise startup conundrum: How do you earn legitimacy if no one will give you an opportunity to become legitimate? Scott Weiss of Andreessen Horowitz recounts how his company IronPort got around this issue by making it seem like a bigger fish. Read More »
Microsoft sees the torrent of email newsletters and daily deal updates as an opportunity to differentiate its Hotmail service by providing a host of new tools to help manage this “gray mail,” part of an ongoing attempt to make Hotmail more competitive against Gmail. Read More »
Google just announced it is ending its Labs program in an effort to focus more on its existing products, and a collective gasp went up around the Internet. My first thought was, “Oh my God, what will happen to my multiple inboxes and Auto-advance features?” Read More »
Many white-collar workers end up sending slight variations on the same email over and over again. Web application startup Tout has announced a new integration with LinkedIn that could be a major boon to a number of potential power users in fields like sales and PR. Read More »
Facebook has shut down a service from Open-Xchange that allowed users to export the email addresses of their contacts, which makes the Germany company the latest to run afoul of the social network’s ongoing attempts to maintain control over the information of its users. Read More »
IMAP4 is a little discussed but widely used protocol for accessing and managing email. As it turns out, IMAP is also a great way to deliver information to mobile applications, by repurposing mobile IMAP clients for use in a wide range of mobile applications. Read More »
Project Slice, which just raised $9.4 million, is introducing an app called All My Purchases for the new Yahoo Mail that organizes a user’s online receipts, shipping notices and daily deals and helps people make sense of it all like a Mint for online purchases. Read More »
Twitter’s decision to send users more email notifications could be a red flag that Twitter is trying to remedy a major stickiness problem, potentially reflecting a major concession for the company: People aren’t engaging with Twitter in the way the founders initially hoped. Read More »
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