Interdrome

Dr. Nicholas Ping made his fortune in communications tech and has lately begun building a data and information hub meant specifically for supers who want to trade knowledge. He has named it—and his gadgeteering alter-ego—Interdrome, and intends to make it the biggest and best social media network for superheroes—with hopes of eclipsing USNet's TroubAlert system. The end product will include social chatting, global positioning, and a shared database of information to help superheroes the world over better organize their fight against crime and other dangers.
UNISON is completely in favor of the project, though they leave the design and funding in the hands of the eccentric billionaire. He has promised to make the entire network free for any superheroes who have demonstrated a history of using their powers for good.
Although Interdrome’s heart is in the right place, he is so intent on his goal he hasn’t paid as much attention as he should to where his technology comes from. SHADOW has provided some bugged hardware which, if it is installed, could grant them real-time access to the entire network once it goes live. So far, neither Interdrome nor UNISON have any clue of this danger.
Nicholas Ping was born to a billionaire oil magnate, enrolled in the best schools, and encouraged to indulge his childhood fascination with science and technology. He had his first multi-million-dollar patent before his 12th birthday and graduated with dual Ph.D.s in business and engineering by the age of 15. His genius and experience, guided by his father, grew Ping Industries into a technological powerhouse with facilities on all seven continents. (The Antarctic base is a weather station, but Ping is adamant it still counts.)
Ping grew up aware of the great advantages his upbringing gave him, and of how easily his gifts might have been squandered had he been born to a struggling family in the developing world. His company spends hundreds of millions annually finding and granting scholarships to gifted, disadvantaged children, but Ping does not feel it’s enough. For the past ten years, he has turned his R&D division toward aiding superheroes in coordinating efforts and developing advanced technologies. His newest innovation—Interdrome—has superheroes and the press talking about it, despite that fact that it won’t launch for a couple of years.
Ping does not fight crime himself, but he still outfits himself in gadgets that make it possible for him to participate in combat, at least a little. He has neither the physical ability nor the training to survive long in a real super-powered fight, but he is happy to do as much good as possible with his money and his genius, helping others to answer the call safely, successfully, and more efficiently than he can.
The Interdrome headquarters occupies a small island on the outskirts of Singapore. The sprawling facility is both an operating technology company and a base of operations for Interdrome’s “crime-fighting” operations.