Exact has been sponsoring Max Verstappen, the youngest-ever Formula One winner for almost a year. Now the Dutch company has signed him as a Tech Talent Leader. Exact said his job, starting this month, is to inspire "some of the company's most promising tech talent." Exact began sponsoring the driver in August when he was 17, before a rule raising the minimum age to 18 kicked in and this year he became the youngest driver to win a Formula One event by taking the Spanish Grand Prix.

RealPage, which makes property management software, has launched a VAR program. The Carrollton, Texas-based software company has not said how many resellers it might have signed. However, it did provide a statement by Scott Irwin, CEO of Aktion Associates, about his company's decision to take on the line. Besides reselling RealPage's accounting system, VARs will handle the other elements in the commercial suite, which include property management, budgeting, document management, eProcurement and reporting functionality.

Danish reseller and developer Columbus has named Henning Gershof as VP of sales and market operations. Gershof was sales operations director for the company for the last two years. The Copenhagen, Denmark-based company says Gershof will be an important player in implementing its Columbus2020 strategy. Going back a bit, Gershof was with IBM in the Nordic region from August 199 through March 2011.

A five-year-old recently destroyed a $15,000 Lego sculpture within an hour of the exhibit's opening in China. I think it's safe to say that whoever was responsible for security has never been a parent with young children. When my daughter was that age, I wouldn't let her around a dollar set of glassware unsupervised. ... News reports continue to appear about the discovery of a small number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are much like their American counterparts except for being bigger, more aggressive and showing a taste for people.