Yaron Assabi

Johannesburg Area, South Africa, Gauteng South Africa

Chairman at Mobile Marketing Association

Technology / Software / Internet

I am an entrepreneur with a passion for ICT and have been consulting in the ICT industry for the past 20 years in the US, UK and South Africa. I am the founder of what is known today as the Digital Solutions Group (DSG) but started in 1998 as Digital Mall (Pty) Ltd trading as Digitalmall.com In 2000 we sold a 51% stake in Digitalmall.com to iTouch (the technology company of Independent News and Media at the time). iTouch is a mobile value added services company that looked to capture the mobile commerce market prior to their IPO on the FTSE that year. Digital Mall wrote the mobile commerce platform utilised by iTouch to be first to market in South Africa, UK, and Australasia and ...