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masterseek is the world’s largest and most comprehensive B2B search engine that establishes contact between buyers and suppliers worldwide. masterseek’s unique web technology enables companies to obtain detailed information regarding global, national, regional, or local markets and their actors. Masterseek’s global search engine provides quick and free access to, among other things, company profiles, contact information, and descriptions of products and services from more than 45 million companies in 75 countries.(status: 09.2006)

Their mission is to become the business community’s preferred company search engine and analysis tool to find new suppliers or potential customers, to research, or monitor a given market or to analyse new investment openings. In order to achieve this we offer our users the quickest and most precise search results on the market with relevant, detailed, and updated information about each of the listed international and local companies.

In order to achieve this we will prove to be better than our competitors in the following core areas:

In order to achieve this we will prove to be better than our competitors in the following core areas:

1. Broadness - We will be the largest and leading global business to business search engine with relevant information regarding every company in the world.
2. Depth - We will have the most detailed and categorised information about every company in the world.
3. Dynamic - We will deliver continuously updated company information from every company in the world.
4. Precision - We will deliver search results that match any search criteria with relevant information about all of the companies worldwide.
5. Price - We will deliver a wide range of services without any costs placed on our users.

TECHNOLOGY

• Masterseek’s search results and company information are collected by specially developed web crawlers that automatically and continually search company websites while data mining software and advanced search algorithms guarantee that the collected business-to-business information is presented efficiently and swiftly for Masterseek’s users.
• Masterseek’s web crawlers collect and index data daily from several thousands of companies.
• Therefore our search pages are currently able to present contact information, company profiles, and product descriptions for more than 45 million companies worldwide. (status: 09.2006)
• We have by means of Masterseek’s extensive expertise within the area of data mining and search algorithms developed a search engine that expeditiously and efficiently selects those companies that are relevant when our users, for instance, would like to investigate a certain market globally, nationally, regionally, or locally.
• Our web department, furthermore, arranges that search results and company details are optimised both visually and functionally through constant iterations so they are presented in an updated, user-friendly, well-arranged, and easily accessible manner.

University of California, Berkeley

11th Sept

$113 million gift, UC Berkeley's largest ever, to support 100 endowed faculty chairs

8th Sept 2007

Astronomers eager to add to Sky in Google Earth

25th August 2007

The Berkeley Campus
Undergraduate Majors and Programs
Information for International Freshman Applicants
Living and Learning at Berkeley
Visiting Berkeley
Tuition, Fees and Financial Aid

Tuition, Fees and Financial Aid

About three-quarters of Berkeley undergraduates receive financial aid, which is primarily need-based. Applicants apply for university-sponsored scholarships automatically when they apply for admission; a separate form, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is required for grants, loans and work study.

Average Student Budget 2007-2008*

	Living on Campus	Living off Campus	Living at Home
Registration & Fees**	$ 8,384	$ 8,384	$ 8,384
Housing, food & utilities	13,848	9,340	4,002
Books and supplies	1,234	1,234	1,234
Personal expenses	1,264	1,394	1,758
Transportation	578	976	1,842
Total	$25,308	$21,328	$17,220

*Estimated budget; subject to change.
**Non-resident tuition add $19,620.

An additional fee is charged for selected residence halls.

Health insurance fee of $1,220 is included in student budget, but may be waived if proof of adequate coverage is presented.

Visiting Berkeley

A visit to the campus is the best way to find out what UC Berkeley has to offer. No matter how much you've read or heard about Berkeley, nothing can compare to seeing it for yourself. We hope that you will take us up on this invitation: tour the campus, listen to an admissions presentation, explore the surrounding area, and talk informally to some of the people in the Berkeley campus community.

Planning Your Visit
Your first stop on campus should be Visitor Services, located in 101 University Hall. Campus tours leave Visitor Services Monday-Friday at 10:00 a.m. These student-led tours are free of charge and last about an hour and a half. Admissions information for prospective students is also available most weekdays between 1-4 p.m.; please check the links above to confirm tour times before you arrive on campus. You may wish to refer to the following academic calendar in planning your campus visit.

	Fall 2008
Fall semester classes begin	August 21
Labor Day Holiday	September 1
Veterans Day Holiday	November 11
Thanksgiving Holiday	November 27 - 28
Instruction ends	December 10
Final Examinations	December 13 - 20
Winter Holiday	December 25 - 26
New Year's Holiday	December 31, 2008 - January 1, 2009
	Spring 2008
Martin Luther King holiday	January 21
Spring semester classes begin	January 22
Presidents' Day Holiday	February 18
Spring Recess	March 24 - 28
Cesar Chavez Holiday	March 28
Cal Day (Campus Open House)	April 12
Instruction Ends	May 12
Final Examinations	May 15 - 22
	Summer 2008
First summer session begins	May XX
Memorial Day holiday	May 26
Independence Day holiday	July 4
Last summer session ends	August XX
*Dates in italics indicate times when campus offices will be closed For More Information To download the above information, as well as additional ideas for exploring the Berkeley campus and driving directions, please refer to our campus visit flyer, An Invitation to Visit.

Living and Learning at Berkeley

Housing and Residential Life
You have a wide variety of housing choices at Berkeley. The campus guarantees housing to new students who are admitted to the fall semester and meet the housing application deadline. Most residence halls offer dining facilities, seminar/study rooms and on-site academic services such as tutoring, advising, and computing assitance. In addition, the campus maintains over 1,000 apartments for students who are married, single parents, or domestic partners. Also available are "theme houses" that combine residential living with a particular academic focus and nearly 3,500 spaces in student cooperatives, fraternities, and sororities. For more information, please check the links on the right side of this page.

Over 700 Campus Organizations
The Berkeley campus is an eclectic, interesting and varied place to live and to learn, and this is truly reflected in the wide range of clubs and student organizations available. Cal students can join the Marching Band, the Cal Hang Gliding Club, radio station KALX, ethnic associations, humor and literary magazines, debate team, and a variety of cultural and political groups. If you can't find one that suits your interests, you may even form your own organization—new groups are constantly forming and changing to meet the needs of the our students.

Volunteer and Internship Opportunities
A large percentage of our students take Berkeley's public service mission to heart. Cal Corps Public Service Center coordinates a wide variety of programs for students who want to volunteer for a community organization, work with an established campus group such as Cal Berkeley Habitat for Humanity or Raza Recruitment and Retention Center, or pursue internship opportunities to supplement their classroom experience. The Berkeley Career Center is another excellent resource for internships, both in the corporate and nonprofit arenas.

Arts and Cultural Events
As a Cal student, you can take advantage of an exciting variety of on-campus lectures, concerts, forums, seminars, festivals, plays, exhibits, and films offered by world-acclaimed scholars and performers—so many that you need to check the calendar of events to keep up. In addition, a host of arts, entertainment and sports activities are within minutes from campus in San Francisco, Oakland and other surrounding Bay Area communities. Downtown Berkeley, a short walk from campus, offers four movie theaters (22 screens), highly-regarded theater, live music, artist cooperatives, and many other cultural venues.

Cal Bear Athletics
Berkeley is a member of the PAC-10 Division I Conference and offers a full range of men's and women's intercollegiate sports. You can watch the Cal Bears fight it out on the football field, tennis court or track, or take advantage of the campus' extensive sports and recreational facilities yourself. Cal has a comprehensive intramural sports program, offering everything from coed flag football to martial arts.