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Australian cloud technology specialist Versent has appointed Gavin Wilkie to the role chief financial officer, and Gabriele Famous has joined its board as a non-executive director.

The ‘Dick Smith team,’ which is presumably its receivers administrators first and foremost, have issued an ‘open letter’ to customers in the hope you’ll buy something.

Creditors, shareholders, suppliers and customers of electronics retailer Dick Smith have been left in limbo as they wait to see what is to happen to the company’s hundreds of stores throughout Australia and New Zealand after the business was placed in voluntary administration.

The Dick Smith electronics retail group has seen solid growth in its online business over the past 12 months, with online sales now comprising 8% of total retail sales across the Australian business.

Dick Smith Electronics (DSE) has announced unaudited sales of $1,228 million for the year ended 29 June 2014. The figure exceeds its forecast pro forma sales guidance originally provided in the prospectus it issued in November 2013, when it floated on the ASX.

The board of the National Online Retailers Association (NORA) has been beefed up with four senior retail figures joining the board.

Dick Smith has launched a scan-to-buy mobile app which the retailer says will help shoppers avoid checkout lines this Boxing Day.

If you haven’t pre-ordered, but feel the need for a PlayStation 4 at the midnight launch, one option may be Dick Smith.  

While Amazon has been happy to sell its Kindle ebook reader to Australian customers, it hasn't been available locally. That's about to change: the Kindle will soon be available at Woolworths, Big W and Dick Smith Electronics.

iPad 2 stocks are non-existent at the various stores we called earlier today, including an Apple Store, although we did learn that walk-ins at Apple Stores for iPad 2's will no longer be accepted - read on for details!