Cloud computing is one of the most hyped topics being discussed today. Just do a Google search and you’ll find 13,700,000 results for that term. Amazon started their cloud offering way back in the last millennium, and others are following suit. Dell even tried to register the trademark, but failed.

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When we talk about Apple, mankind is pretty much divided into three camps: lovers, haters and developers. Seriously, I never thought the day would come when I’d say such a thing, but the fact is: Apple needs the other Steve.

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Welcome to the blog of the Strategic Worldwide Applications and Technologies (SWAT) team of Naspers/MIH – a Global Media Company.

Naspers/MIH has one of the largest developing market investment portfolios in the Internet/Mobile space. You can see our investment portfolio here.

The SWAT team is a global product development and Internet Strategy team, comprised of Internet Analysts, Product Specialists and software engineers. Together we form a think tank and execution arm of the Internet division within Naspers, and this blog serves as our outlet for strategic thoughts, technological idea sharing and general discussion both with the users of the products within Naspers/MIH Internet as well as other new WWW destinations.

We encourage our team members as well as other Internet thinkers within our Group to write blog posts and welcome feedback and debate from the wider community.

Welcome All!

John Kotsaftis

CIO Naspers/MIH Internet

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