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• Kogan rolls out marketplace to boost CX

  Two years after going public on the ASX, online retailer Kogan.com has ramped up expansion plans and launched Kogan Marketplace, where businesses and consumers have access to more than 100,000 products.

• Paul Keen moves to Qantas

  Former Airtasker CTO Paul Keen is the new head of software engineering at Qantas. Keen, who left the gig economy player last month, is reporting to Qantas chief technology, Rob James who joined the airline last May.

• AWS exodus due to Amazon Australia competition 'doesn’t make rational sense': A/NZ chief

  ​Amazon Web Services' Australian chief has dismissed suggestions local retailers will pull out of the company’s cloud services following the arrival of Amazon.com.au in the country.

• At home with Airtasker: The start-up's CTO Paul Keen on building for hypergrowth

  Airtasker is a company in hypergrowth. Last year the job outsourcing marketplace hit half a million members, secured $22 million in a funding round led by Seven West Media, recorded its fifth year of consecutive revenue growth and ran ads during the AFL grand final half-time break.

• ​HP rules as Aussie PC market bounces back

  Tech giant largely aided by superior performance in education and public sector.

• Dick Smith enters liquidation

  ​In a bid to recoup some of the $260 million owed, creditors have voted in favour of putting Dick Smith into liquidation.

• Dick Smith shareholders left out in the cold

  Dick Smith has confirmed what many of its shareholders already expected. The company does not have the money to pay its creditors and therefore, will not return any money to them.
  

• Odd job marketplace gets $22 million boost

  ​Get ready to hear a lot more about Airtasker. The start-up has raised $22 million in a second round of funding led by Seven West Media.

• 50% of companies to invest in DevOps

  More than half of Australian enterprises are expected to make multiple investments over the next year to implement a DevOps strategy, according to new research.
  

• DevOps to become mainstream by 2016

  DevOps will evolve from being a niche strategy to a mainstream practice implemented by a quarter of Global 2000 firms, Gartner believes.
  

• DevOps an uphill battle: Dick Smith IT boss

  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

  Dick Smith’s IT chief Paul Keen quotes from Charles Dickens’ literary masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities to describe how he feels about deploying DevOps, a concept aimed at improving interaction between app developers and IT operations staff.
  

• Dick Smith replaces legacy IT infrastructure by stealth

  The IT manager of Dick Smith says he is replacing legacy systems by stealth as the consumer electronics retailer navigates a business turnaround.

• Kindle Fire HD will be available through Dick Smith

  Dick Smith Electronics will sell Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet in Australia.

• Retail chain sees value in Google Plus

  Retail chain Dick Smith will use Google Hangouts to share best practices among its stores and bring employees closer together, according to the retailer’s IT director, Linda Venables.

• Dick Smith now selling unlocked iPhones

  Australian electronics retailer, Dick Smith, will become one of the world's first retailers to sell unlocked Apple iPhone devices, but it will not stock the latest iPhone 5 model.