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01 Feb 2011

SWAT Week in Tech (WIT) – 24-28 January 2011

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• Tencent launches a $759 million fund for online games. The fund is aimed at acquiring new sources of revenue growth in the online gaming market. Tencent, the sole investor in the fund, wishes to reinforce its position as a major Chinese virtual services provider. http://bit.ly/h4yCfW

• Nokia partners with Tencent and SINA. The partnership is aimed at using Tencent and SINA’s vast online community to bring location-based services (check-ins and recommendations) to Nokia’s Ovi maps. The partnership forms a strategic base for Nokia to create partnerships with established brands to extend services which has already taken off in the US. http://bit.ly/dHUyYD

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28 Sep 2009

My Journey to planet Android

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Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone :) , I was both excited and nervous

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08 Jul 2009

SWATLabs goes public !

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We are happy to anounce that SWATLabs, the showcase for the proof of concept applications that SWAT develops, has now gone live!

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02 Apr 2009

Media Lab Students visit SWAT

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SWAT had the great pleasure of hosting the group of students from the Stellenbosch Media Lab at our offices today.

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27 Oct 2008

SWAT Socially – Paintball in Brazil

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Want to see the (real) face of SWAT Brazil ? John and I went on a trip to Brazil very recently, and joined the team for a paintball battle and an excellent post-war dinner at Braz – arguably the best chain of pizzerias on the planet.

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06 Oct 2008

What is Scrum?

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Being relatively new to the Scrum way of doing things (2 projects in progress and starting a 3rd), I thought it may be useful to start a series of blog posts on our experience of Scrum. To kick off I will start with our understanding of what scrum is.

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06 Oct 2008

Welcome to Naspers/MIH SWAT Blog

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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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