The business strategy of Consorteum Holdings Inc. is to capitalize on global opportunities within the growing financial services, payment and transaction processing marketplace. The company can customize the right solution to payment and transaction ‘headaches’ for a wide variety of entities in both the public and private sector.

Consorteum recently reported that it had signed a letter of intent with Tactical Connections Inc. to provide various financial services to major tier one US, Canadian and European manufacturing and retail industries. The company will work with Tactical Connections to provide its clients with new and enhanced solutions to drive consumer spending and customer loyalty. Through the partnership, Consorteum will provide manufacturer’s mail-in rebate gift cards with association branding, loyalty and rewards programs, stored value cards and other value-added services.

The two companies have been working together awhile to create a customer loyalty program to

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Xcellink International Inc. is a developer of patented mobile payments and banking platforms. The company’s unique process enables customers, rather than the merchants, to initiate, control and pay for all transactions without the need for any type of cards (credit, debit, etc.) in real-time anywhere, anytime and at a fraction of the cost of current transactions.

The company announced today that it has executed an agreement with 3i Infotech for the development and integration of its patented software with Apple’s iPhone technology. Xcellink is excited with this agreement because of the chance to work with a subsidiary of 3i Infotech – the Regulus Group. Regulus provides statement and bill presentment services to clients in the financial services, health care, insurance and utilities industries. They are also one of North America’s largest payment processors, handling about 2 billion paper and electronic transactions each year.

Work for Xcellink will be carried out

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Pay88 Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary Chongqing Qianbao Technology Ltd as a growing digital technology company. Pay88 is a leading reseller of Internet game time in China and is primarily engaged in selling prepaid online multi-player game cards in more than 20 cities in China. The company today announced an agreement with Chongqing Kai Yuan investment Co., which will allow new clients to use Pay88’s platform for financial services, including to apply for loans online.

Chongqing Kai Yuan Investment Co. provides micro-loans to small enterprises throughout Chongqing, the third fastest-growing regional economy in China. Today’s agreement represents Pay88’s first step toward achieving its goal of becoming China’s “online supermarket of financial products and services,” by adding financial services and products to its offerings.

“Kai Yuan has a solid management structure with excellent local know-how about Chinese enterprises, the capital markets and the finance systems, and they provide valuable financial

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LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwire) — 11/10/09 — Xcellink International Inc. (OTCBB: XCEL), a developer of a patented mobile payments & banking platforms, is pleased to announce that is has executed an agreement with 3i Infotech for the development and integration of its patented software with Apple’s iPhone technology.

Work will be carried out by 3i Infotech’s development team, and it is expected that the new technology will be ready for testing in early January 2010. The board of Xcellink is extremely excited by this relationship due in part to the 3i Infotech Group of Companies, which includes Regulus Group, a subsidiary of the global information technology company 3i Infotech, and one of North America’s largest payment processors.

Regulus Group is one of the brightest stars in the payment processing industry providing statement and bill presentment services to clients in the financial services, health care, insurance, telecommunications, and utilities industries.

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Syntel (SYNT) recently declared a regular quarterly dividend of 6 cents per share, which translates into an industry-leading yield of 0.6%. The company also reported third-quarter earnings of 73 cents per share, eclipsing last year's 54 cents and topping the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 24%.

Company Description

Syntel Inc. provides information technology and knowledge process outsourcing services worldwide. In describing its business, the company explains that it delivers flexible, custom Information Technology and Business Process outsourcing solutions that improve quality and reduce costs. Syntel serves the financial services, healthcare, insurance, automotive and retail industries among others.

Solid Income

The company recently declared a regular quarterly dividend of 6 cents per share, noting that it is payable on January 14 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 31.

The 6-cent dividend translates into an industry-leading yield of 0.6%.

Strong Third Quarter

In

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Companies featured in this edition of the newsletter: ACTC, CHIP, CVM, DKAM, ENZ, IWEB, MBCI, MFGD, PHC

Markets rebounded last week, on the strength of upbeat productivity and manufacturing reports that led to solid gains in all of the major indices. Despite news that the unemployment rate had hit its highest levels in 25 years, the Dow managed to end the week up 310 points, gaining 3.2% on the week to close at 10,023, up 14.2% on the year. The Nasdaq posted a gain of 3.3%, closing at 2112 and extending its yearly gains to 34%, while the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 advanced 3.2% and 3.1% respectively on the week to bring their YTD performance to 18.4% and 16.2%.

Several better than expected economic reports provided buying incentive throughout much of the week, as investors managed to shake off the previous week’s negative bias to send indices into positive territory

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A recent press release from NCR Corp. (NCR) confirms that it has purchased the assets of a market-leading provider of kiosk and digital signage software applications, Netkey, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. We believe that after acquisition NCR is expected to integrate Netkey’s software with its own technologies to deliver world class enterprise solutions, including both hardware and software solutions to its clients.

This acquisition is expected to provide NCR with a good digital signage application platform, which is built on the same platform as Netkey’s kiosk applications, thereby helping the deployment and support of NCR’s solutions.

It will also enable NCR to help customers across multiple industries with kiosk and digital signage solutions that deliver more effective transactions, promotions and information which is the main reason for the merger. The more customer-friendly solutions are expected to attract new customers.

This should be a positive in the current environment, especially considering the

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Edison International's (EIX) adjusted EPS of $1.09 in the third quarter of fiscal 2009 pushed past the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.05 by 4 cents. However, adjusted EPS for the quarter fell short of the year-ago $1.46 EPS.

On a GAAP basis, the company reported quarterly EPS of $1.23, compared to $1.33 in the year-ago quarter. The discrepancy between GAAP and adjusted EPS were due to non-cash accounting benefit from the final regulatory approval to transfer its Mountainview power plant to utility rate base.

Edison's revenue fell 14.7% year-over-year to $3.7 billion from $4.3 billion. The downside was more prominent in electric utility revenue (83.7% of total revenues), which decreased 11.6% year-over-year. Competitive power generation revenues fell 27.2% to $592 million. Financial services and other revenues were only $7 million in the reported quarter from $14 million in the year-ago quarter.

Southern California Edison's (SCE) GAAP EPS in the reported quarter

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PSFT subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

The devices are available in both Si and InGaAs/InP technologies. As compared to TO5 devices, these TO8 packaged detectors have 10-30X lower dark current depending on operating temperature. The Si devices offer flat and

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This morning, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the biggest payroll processing firm, estimated that the economy lost 203,000 private sector jobs in October. That was more than the consensus estimate of 190,000 jobs lost. However, the September job loss numbers were revised to a loss of just 227,000 from the original read of 254,000. Thus the losses are coming from a higher base level, and if the revisions are included, this report was in line with consensus or perhaps a bit better. Still, it indicates that while the economy might be expanding, employment isn’t. However, this is the seventh straight month where ADP has seen fewer jobs lost than the month before. This is similar to the pattern that we saw following the last two recessions. While employment has always been considered a lagging indicator, it has been becoming more so with each passing decade. In part ...