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Google will soon display an updated Boston transit map, with alternate routes for those who rely on the city’s second-most heavily used subway line.

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Apple iPhones during a sales launch in March 2022.

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Nzinga A. Harrison (left), and Corbin Petro of Eleanor Health.

Startups need more women in the board room

In 2019, when Corbin Petro helped get Waltham startup Eleanor Health off the ground, she and her two female co-founders found themselves working with a board of directors with four white men. Petro wanted to change that.

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Jody Rose and Jeff Bussgang — the cofounders of the Boston nonprofit Hack.Diversity — have connected hundreds of underrepresented tech professionals with firms such as Wayfair, Rapid7, Klaviyo, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since 2016.

Jody Rose and Jeff Bussgang are tackling tech’s diversity problem

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Former Google and Amazon executive Debanjan Saha took over as interim chief executive at Boston AI startup DataRobot.

Amid struggles, DataRobot is cutting more staff

The company declined to disclose how many jobs would be eliminated in the layoff. In May, DataRobot cut 7 percent of its roughly 1,000-person workforce. 12:59 p.m.

An iRobot Roomba 980 is shown in a demo room at iRobot in Bedford.

iRobot Roombas its way into Amazon’s arms

Separately, iRobot said it will undergo a series of restructuring efforts, which will include a lay off of about 140 employees, or 10 percent of its global workforce. 8:37 a.m.

INNOVATION BEAT

Stackwell Capital is a Boston-based financial tech company designed to help the Black community build generational wealth through the stock market. Pictured are Trevor Rozier-Byrd, chief executive of Stackwell, and Omosefe Aiyevbomwan, vice president of product at Stackwell.

Can an investing app close the racial wealth gap?

In 2020, Trevor Rozier-Byrd founded Stackwell Capital, a Boston-based financial tech company designed to help the Black community build generational wealth through the stock market. 11:43 a.m.

Bijan Sabet, cofounder and general partner of Spark Capital, has been nominated to become US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Boston VC Bijan Sabet is Biden’s pick for Czech Republic ambassador

The well-known tech investor has also been a big donor to Democrats. 10:27 a.m.

The Ottawa headquarters of Canadian e-commerce company Shopify in 2019.

Shopify invests $100 million in Boston marketing-tech firm

The Canadian online shopping platform announced a partnership with local startup Klaviyo. 2:47 p.m.

CEO Mike O’Kronley speaking to a tour at Ascend Elements’ Westborough battery recycling facility.

Local battery recycler plans $1 billion Kentucky plant

Ascend Elements will invest $310 million in the first phase of construction, which is set to begin in the fourth quarter. 9:01 a.m.

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An image from the Imagination in Action Web3 Summit, which was held at the MIT Media Lab on June 30.

What is web3, and why are people talking about it?

While it’s one of the hottest topics in tech, real-world products and services based on web3 technologies are largely nonexistent and are probably years away. 4:31 p.m.

The exterior of the PerkinElmer lab in Valencia, Calif. The Waltham-based company agreed to sell three business units for up to $2.45 billion.

PerkinElmer sells off three business units in $2.45 billion deal

The Massachusetts company is retaining its life sciences and diagnostics business, which will be renamed before the deal closes. PerkinElmer's stock rose 9 percent on Monday morning. 10:48 a.m.

Christopher Ahlberg, founder and CEO of Recorded Future.

One of the nation’s top lines of cyber defense runs through this company in Davis Square

Recorded Future, which operates out of a former laundromat, has provided Washington’s top officials with intelligence on the country’s biggest breaches, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to recent ransomware attacks.