Nashua stalwart Coutinho resigns

After more than 25 years at the company, Nashua MD David Coutinho has resigned to “pursue other interests”. Coutinho joined Nashua in the late 1980s as national sales manager under then-MD Jac Moolman. He later succeeded Chris Scoble as MD of the company. In a brief...

Bitcoin: disrupting mobile money in Africa

Kathy Gibson at AfricaCom, Cape Town – Bitcoin has generated a lot of international press over the last few months, but so far the system has not really gained traction in Africa. Pelle Braendgaard, co-founder of Kipochi, believes that Bitcoin is a truly...

Banking Africa’s unbanked with mobile

Kathy Gibson at AfricaCom, Cape Town – Mobile money is a complex area, and players must engage the full eco-system of players in order to be successful. That’s the word from Wizzit’s Brian Richardson, who quips that “if mobile money was easy, everyone would be...