Google tries to rethink e-mail with ‘Inbox’

Google dropped a surprise Wednesday, announcing that it’s revamping a product that it hasn’t revisited in a while: good old-fashioned e-mail.

The new service, called Inbox, lays down the heavy promise to conquer the problem of overflowing e-mail accounts — a task that any number of apps have attempted, but few have accomplished. The fact is that while e-mail may get a bad reputation as the scourge of modern-day communication, it’s still the primary way work gets done in an online world.

By Hayley Tsukayama

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