Roy and Bertrand Sosa, two incredible entrepreneurs that started NetSpend, announced a $100M fund for emerging companies under the name MPower Ventures. Their first investment, something called MPower Labs which is the research and development arm. From the website’s front page: MPower Labs is a global research and development incubator and business accelerator serving MPOWER Ventures and its portfolio companies. By providing technical expertise for product development and incubation as well as direct business operations, [...]

SolarWinds announced today that its online community for network engineers, Thwack, celebrated its first anniversary. To commemorate the event, SolarWinds released a new free tool for monitoring Microsoft Exchange servers. The Thwack community site was founded by network management software leader SolarWinds to provide its more than 16,000 members with a venue for sharing ideas, technical tips and educational content. The community offers a variety of support resources, including interaction with SolarWinds product development experts and [...]