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What Happens to Your Email, Photos and Online Accounts After You Die

Indian Law Has No Answer for Your Google DriveYour physical property follows the Indian Succession Act, 1925. Your digital accounts follow nothing, because Indian law does not yet recognise digital assets as inheritable property in any clear, codified way. A family that wants access to a deceased person's Gmail or…

Times Life · Oct 18

In 1996, Tim Draper bought Hotmail shares for $300,000. 2 years later, Microsoft acquired the startup for $400 million

Microsoft announced the Hotmail acquisition on December 31, 1997. It did not reveal how much it paid for the company. A later securities filing provided more detail. Hotmail’s owners received 2,769,148 Microsoft shares in the deal. Wired estimated those shares were worth about $400 million at the time.

The Economic Times · Oct 1

30 years later, my Hotmail email address still works, even though I won't read your message if you email me there

Hotmail turns 30, but it's barely a shadow of its former self. I look at how the service started when Microsoft did with it and how it sort of lives on.

TechRadar · Jun 29

Cost of living scam: Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail email users should be wary of HMRC fraudsters

The online scam informs victims they are owed money by HMRC

Chronicle Live · Jun 2, 2022

Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail email users warned over latest inbox scam

It is one of many scams attempting to take advantage of the cost of living crisis

Wales Online · Jun 1, 2022