LevelStock.com: China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. Plans to Expand Into India in Strategic Move to Increase Global Sales and Net Income Beyond $100 Million Revenue Target for 2010

Feb 22nd 2010,  Braintree,Ma. LevelStock.com is pleased to announce to all of its members and investors information on  China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR) The Company released news as follows:

China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR) today announced a Webcast scheduled for Friday, February 26, 2010 to present the Company’s plans to expand into India as part of a strategy to increase global sales and net income. The Company anticipates reporting record net income on over $40 million in revenue in the annual report for 2009. The Company has also announced a $100 million profitable revenue target for 2010 in addition to announcing a number of large long-term contracts.

A link to the Webcast will be made available on the Company’s website www.chinacrescent.com and emailed to the corporate email database upon release Friday.

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About China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (www.chinacrescent.com)

China Crescent is a systems integration service provider that markets technology outsourcing services in China including the sale and service of brand name technologies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell. Following a recent strategic acquisition, the Company has expanded its business line to include original design manufacturing (ODM). China Crescent reported over $40 million in profitable revenue in 2008. The Company has reported record profits through the first 9 months of 2009 and anticipates reporting record profit in the 2009 annual report. Management has set a goal of reaching $100 million in revenue in 2010.

Headquartered in Dallas with operations in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Dalian and Beijing, China Crescent bridges the gap between global business cultures to assist clients worldwide realize the advantages of the high quality, low cost technology products and services available from China. China Crescent also assists clients in localizing products and services to realize the tremendous growth potential available by expanding into the Chinese Market.

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Check Out Dell W3000 30-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD HDTV

Dell W3000 30-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD HDTV Review

Dell W3000 30-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD HDTV Feature

• Amazing television experience: HDTV ready, wide-screen format for excellent movie and Digital television experience
• Slim design: Save cabinet space or mount on a wall (100×200 VESA mount sold separately)
• Use as either a TV or a computer monitor (or both); 300:1 Contrast Ratio; Widescreen 16:9 Aspect Ratio
• Supports Picture in Picture (PIP), Picture by Picture (PBP), and Picture Outside Picture (POP) Functions
• Speakers are included (TV includes speaker outputs to run directly into your home theater system); Includes LCD TV with Stand, Speakers, Remote Control and Power Cable

Dell W3000 30-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD HDTV Overview

With a full feature set, including HDTV capability as well as PC connectivity, the Dell W3000 30-Inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD HDTV is perfect for multimedia customers who want to watch TV, DVD video and play games. The widescreen aspect ratio is ideal for video applications, and when combined with the Picture/Picture features, makes it easier for users to maximize their multimedia experience by simultaneously viewing images from multiple video inputs including those from a PC.

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Dell Mini 10 Netbook Gets WiMAX

The Dell (s dell) Mini 10 netbook is a very nice specimen, as witnessed by Kevin’s video below. It has just about everything a netbook user could want and then some, given word that WiMAX is now an option. The new option is unlocked, so it can be used with either Sprint (s s) or Clear in the U.S., giving up to 10 Mbps performance. The option is $60, and you’ll have to get a data plan which is extra. Maybe Kevin can get his hands on one of these babies with 4G?

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Need New Battery!

My laptop battery is beginning to fail me. According to the warning message upon logging in, my battery no longer will hold a charge and it recommends me buying a new one. So i went onto the Dell website and theyre selling the batteries for $130-$150! Extreme ripoff indeed :/

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It Ain't Over Yet

By Dirk Van Dijk

February 12, 2010

Earnings Preview 2/12/10

Earnings season is winding down, but that does not mean it’s over. Next week will bring 336 earnings reports, including 46 members of the S&P 500. Among the more significant reports well be those from Retail heavyweights Wal-Mart (WMT) and J.C. Penney (JCP), Tech titans Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL) and Applied Materials (AMAT). Other important companies releasing results next week include Deere (DE – Analyst Report) and Kraft Foods (KFT).

It will be a busy week on the economic data front with reports on Housing, Industrial Production and Inflation coming out.

Monday

• Furniture and Carpet stores will run sales featuring stove pipe and tri-cornered hat themes (a.k.a Presidents Day)

Tuesday

• The Treasury Budget will finally be released. The report showing just how much red ink was spilled in Washington in January was supposed to come out this week, but was delayed due to the snow. Consensus expectations are for a deficit of $46.0 billion. In December it was $91.9 billion, but the data is extremely seasonal. The better comparison is with January a year ago when $63.5 billion worth or red ink was spilled. That’s right folks — the budget deficit is expected to be down significantly. If it is, expect the number to hardly be mentioned on CNBC, since that would not fit their general talking points

Wednesday

• The day will start off with a very important measure of the housing market: housing starts and building permits. In December, housing starts unexpectedly plunged to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 557,000, interrupting a gradual uptrend that started in the spring. Normally one might expect a snap-back, but the seasonal adjustment might not capture all of bad weather. Building permits held up much better in December at an annual rate of 653,000, and permits are generally the best leading indicator of starts. I would expect starts to do better than permits in January, reversing some of the December divergence. Traditionally, residential investment is one of the most important (if not THE most important engine lifting the economy out of recessions). This time around, the engine seems to be running on just one cylinder

• The second major report of the day is the one on Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization. In December, overall Industrial production rose by 0.6%, but that was mostly due to a huge surge in Utility output, which rose 5.9%. Utility output is as much a function of the weather as it is of economic activity. Manufacturing output actually fell 0.1%. Look for a small rebound in manufacturing output. In December, overall Capacity Utilization was 72.0% and has been on an uptrend since May. It was up from 71.5% in November, but as with Industrial Production the increase was mostly from the Utilities; Factory output only inched up by 0.1% to 68.6%. The Capacity Utilization report is one of the most underrated of economic reports, and while it is improved from last summer, it is still at historically very low levels. A stalling Industrial Production and a fall in Capacity Utilization would be very bad news

Thursday

• Weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance come out. They fell 43,000 in the last week, to 440,000. That reversed three straight weekly increases, but prior to that they had been in a very steep downtrend. Look for the decline to continue, but not at the same rate. The four-week average was only down 1,000 last week to 469,500

• Continuing claims have also been in a steep downtrend of late. However, that is in part due to people simply exhausting their regular state benefits which run out after 26 weeks. If one factors in the extended claims paid by the Federal government as part of the Stimulus Program, claims soared last week. Looking at just the regular continuing claims numbers is a serious mistake — they only include a little over half of the unemployed now given the unprecedentedly high duration of unemployment figures. Last week regular continuing claims were 4.538 million, a drop of 79,000. Extended claims (paid from Federal ARRA funds) were 5.684 million, a decline of 171,500. Make sure to look at both sets of numbers!

• The Producer Price Index (PPI) is due out. In December it was up 0.2% on a headline basis, a sharp drop from the 1.8% increase in November. Excluding food and energy to get the core PPI, prices were unchanged in December after a 0.5% increase in November. On a year-over-year basis, producer prices were up 4.4% overall, but mostly that was due to the rebound in energy prices from a year ago. On a core basis, the PPI was up only 0.9% year over year. Look for a small increase on both a core and headline basis in January

• The index of leading indicators has really been on a tear of late, rising 1.1% in December on top of a 1.0% increase in November. Expect a further rise, but not at quite as hot a pace

Friday

• The Consumer Price Index is due out. In December it was up 0.1% on a headline basis, down from 0.4% in November. On a core basis, prices were down 0.1% in December after being unchanged in November. On a year-over-year basis, prices were up 2.7% overall, and up 1.8% on a core basis. Look for the CPI to be close to unchanged, and possibly slightly negative on a core basis. Inflation is not a serious concern right now

Potential Positive Surprises

Historically, the best indicators of firms likely to report positive surprises are a recent history of positive surprises and rising estimates going into the report. The Zacks Rank is also a good indicator of potential surprises. While normally firms that report better-than-expected earnings rise in reaction, that has not been the case so far this quarter. Some of the companies that have these characteristics include:

Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) is expected to report EPS of $0.38, down from $1.71 per share a year ago. Last time out, CLF posted a positive surprise of 850% (OK, it was a very low base, so take that percentage with a grain of salt) and over the last month the mean estimate for its fourth quarter earnings is up 7.20%. CLF has a Zacks #1 Rank.

Reliance Steel (RS) is expected to report EPS before non-recurring items of $1.01, up from $0.90 a year ago. In the 3Q, Reliance posted a positive surprise of 26.7% and over the last month, the consensus estimate for its 4Q earnings is up an awesome 168.1%. RS is a Zacks #1 Rank stock.

NVIDIA (NVDA) is expected to earn $0.15 per share this year, up from a loss of $0.25 a year ago. In the third quarter it posted a 1333.3% positive surprise. Over the last month the mean estimate for the 4Q is up 15.0%. NVDA holds a Zacks #2 Rank.

Potential Negative Surprises

Goodyear Tire (GT) is expected to post a loss of $0.06 a share, an improvement over the $1.18 a share loss a year ago. Last time GT reported 6.38% short of expectations. For this Zacks #5 Rank stock, analysts have actually increased the estimates for this quarter over the last month by 2.44%.

Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) is expected to earn $0.46 a share this quarter, down from $0.59 last year. It disappointed by 56.3% last time out, and analysts have cut the estimate for this quarter by 4.52% over the last month. The stock holds a Zacks #5 Rank.

Winn-Dixie (WINN) is expected to report a loss of $0.16, worse than the loss of $0.06 last year. Last quarter they reported 3.50% short of expectations. Over the past month, analysts have cut the estimate for this Zacks #5 Rank stock by 10.8%.

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Dell Mini 5 Poses For Photo Opp

Enagadget has a pretty nice set of pics of Dell’s upcoming Mini 5 Android smartphone. This thing looks like a beast! The Mini 5 has been approved by the FCC with US compatible 3G bands, so hopefully this is the phone AT&T will get from Dell.  Check out the full gallery of images HERE.

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Dell Warranty Class Action Lawsuit Allowed To Proceed In Ontario

If you’re in Ontario and you have a Dell computer, you may want to pay attention to this. Law professor Micheal Geist has been tracking the story of a young man who needed his computer fixed:

In 2004, Ian Andrews purchased a Dell laptop computer for $1,700. About 2 1/2 years later, the computer began to malfunction, periodically shutting down unexpectedly. Stuck with a problem computer that was past the standard warranty period, Andrews complained to Dell. The computer giant responded that the online contract governing the initial purchase required him to resolve the dispute by arbitration.

Andrews recognized this was not a realistic approach, later stating that, as a university student, he was not in a financial position to retain counsel to support an arbitration claim. Instead, he chose a different course of action, suing the company as part of a class-action lawsuit that brought together thousands of consumers experiencing similar problems.

Dell challenged the class-action suit, but last month the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with Andrews, ruling that it could proceed.

This sounds somewhat similar to a Dell lawsuit that I’ve written about in the past. Why is this decision important for people in Ontario? I’ll let Geist explain:

This latest case represents a major win for Canadian consumer groups, who have tangled with Dell before in a case that ultimately went to the Supreme Court of Canada. Businesses operating online may understandably prefer to limit their likely liability through arbitration, but the resounding response from the Ontario legislature and courts indicates that it should not be possible to force consumers to click away their class-action rights.

I’m all for having consumers protected, so as far as I’m concerned this is great for them. I do have one question though. Dell keeps getting hit with these types of lawsuits. I wonder what’s up with that? Perhaps it’s something that they need to look at so that they are still a viable choice for those who want to buy PCs.

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Dell Mini 5 passes FCC

One device that i am hugely is excited for running android is the Dell Mini 5. On the North American front the device has not got much attention , although we did grab a video of it at CES 2010 (Dell Mini 5 at CES 2010). I would love to see all the features a device of this size and potential power is bringing to us. Could this device alone beat out any hope for Apple’s Tablet being successful granted this device has some real power behind it (probably not)?  It has passed the FCC on AT&T 3G bands, and Dell has taken the stance Entertainment device first and phone second, and the way people are using Smartphones today you can be mad at them for taking this approach. For specs on the Device keep up with our Blog and we will make sure to keep you updated on the device.

Dell Mini 5 Passes FCC>>>

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Dell Mini 5 Prototype Sneak Peak

Snuggle up with the black Dell Streak/Mini 5 prototype, which has “Model M01M” marked under the battery cover—probably the most official name to date. Spec-wise the M01M sums up what’s been speculated all along—A 5-inch 800×480 touchscreen, Android 1.6, 1GHz CPU (presumably Snapdragon, as revealed by the teardown), WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G of some sort, 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, front-facing camera, and the same 1530mAh battery as the one in the teardown. The price? ¥7,500, which converts to a whopping $1,098 in US cash, but bear in mind that this doesn’t reflect the M01M’s actual retail price for whenever it might launch.

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et tu, Dell?

October 6, 1997. Dell is the number one PC seller in the world, and are just over a decade old. The young company can seem to do no wrong, and has returned investors a 2,800% gain in the past 5 years.

Apple had already seen it’s heyday in the previous decade, and has now fallen on hard times. Over the same 5 year time period, the older company experienced massive turbulence, and had lost around 50% of it’s value.

Michael Dell gets on stage and is presented with the question: now that Steve Jobs is back at Apple, if you were him, what would you do to fix the company?

“What would I do? I’d shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders”

Fast forward 13 years. Since then, Apple has seen a 3,500% gain in it’s value. Dell, on the other hand, has seen almost none, at the moment it stands at a mere 10%.

When looking at a shorter, 5 year time period, things look even bleaker for Dell: a 60% loss in value (meanwhile, Apple is around 500%).

So to Michael Dell: “Your company has lost 60% of it’s value over the past 5 years. What will you do to fix it?”

I’m guessing his answer won’t be what it was 13 years ago.

References:

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"If you want people to follow you, walk behind them" - Starbucks' Howard Schultz leads the field on ROI for social media

In my ‘day job’ as one of the Director of a Social Media (ROI) consultancy firm called Media Focus UK Ltd I am always on the look out for fantastic thought leaders and columnists to follow and Gordon MacMillan at Brand Republic is one of those. He stays three paces ahead of others in thinking and can simply express what many feel needs to be said in readable and enjoyable terms.

In his latest posting (link below) he discusses the perennial problem of 3 out of every 4 marketeers or communication people not really understanding where social media fits as a part of their major promotional strategies and that they are ‘confused about the role.’ He cites someone who is not – Howard Schultz – the boss of Starbucks.

Schultz is asked in an interview which one channel will take precedence, here’s his answer:

“I think social media is a natural extension of our brand because we want to do things that are unexpected, and to speak to all sorts of people who are engaged with social media. It’s tough to measure but there is an incremental benefit to sales.”

MacMillan goes on “No one questions the value of PR or thinks too much about assigning ROI to it. It is clearly done well worth its weight in gold” and that there is one thing (the PR thing) that struck him, “Howard Schultz must think about ROI when he thinks about the 200% rise in profits at Starbucks in the last quarter.”

MacMillan continues “Schultz must think about ROI when he discusses how the coffee chain attracted 5.1 million Facebook fans and 768, 527 followers and how according to Nielsen the time spent by users on social networking sites has more than doubled since December 2007. Nielsen said last month that consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009.”

A Chinese proverb (I forget who said it now – perhaps Lao Tse) said something along the lines of “If you want people to follow you, walk behind them.” Meaning, I’d guess you can persuade people easier if you are one of them and are listening to what they think, feel and are responding to them and valuing them all. Isn’ t that what Starbucks are doing in this example?

MacMillan concludes “If you want to talk to these people you’d better be where they are. I’ll mention Dell again. You kind of have to and while the $6.5m it made via Twitter is a drop in the ocean it is part of a growing drop that many savvy firms are part of.”

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