Tech News Weekly 34

• 1:22 IFTTT (If This Than That) is an app that works with everything. The company's CEO and creator Linden Tibbets talks about how and why he created it.
• 14:23 Amazon adopts the Rooney Rule for hiring board members. Jori Ford from the G2 Crowd explains why this isn't enough to bring true diversity to tech hiring.
• 36:53 Mary Meeker has released her trend report. Recode's Rani Malla offers highlights what's important and gives us a sneak peak into other interviews from ReCode's Code Conference.
• 48:52 Fraud.org helps consumers avoid scams. John Breyault, VP of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud with the National Consumers League, tells us about typosquatting and other tricks that cybercriminals are still using.

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Links

• IFTTT
• Amazon will adopt a ‘Rooney Rule’ to increase board diversity after its initial opposition sparked employee outrage
• g2crowd.com
• Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis
• Warning: Misspelling that web address can lead to trouble
• Dot-cm Typosquatting Sites Visited 12M Times So Far in 2018
• Top ten scams of 2017
• Jason Gets a Big Box for a Small Package of Oreos - YouTube