DOTHOMES WINS STEVIE AWARD

DOTHOMES WINS INTERNATIONAL STEVIE® AWARD IN FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS

London, UK – July 8, 2008 – DotHomes has won an International Stevie Award for Best Interface Design in The 2008 International Business Awards. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.

Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala dinner on Monday, September 8 in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Primary sponsors for the event will be Dow Jones and IDA Ireland.

Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 30 countries. Organizations all over the world are eligible to compete in The International Business Awards, and can enter in any of more than 40 categories from Best Multinational Company and Best New Product to Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program and Best Executive.

DotHomes is a real estate search engine. It’s US launch on 29 January 2008 has followed successful launches in the UK and South Africa, and there has been considerable subsequent excitement across the US. The proprietary data-retrieval technologies have long marked DotHomes as being different. But, from the consumer perspective it is the unique one-box search interface which is particularly notable. And, it is for this that DotHomes has been recognized by the judges of the International Business Awards.

Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and their staffs selected International Stevie winners from among the Finalists, which were determined by volunteer judges around the world during two months of preliminary judging.

“Entries to the IBAs grew 65% this year and that illustrates the increasing importance of The International Business Awards worldwide,” said Michael Gallagher, president of The Stevie Awards, presenters of the IBAs. “We congratulate all of the Finalists and International Stevie Awards winners, and we look forward to honoring them for their achievements at our gala awards dinner in Dublin on September 8.”

According to Artemi Krymski, co-founder of DotHomes: “We are particularly flattered to have been awarded a Stevie. There is still a long road ahead of us, however. We hope that people continue to enjoy our product as we develop towards our aim of providing consumers with the easiest way to find their dream homes, no matter where they are in the world.”

Press Contact:
Douglas de Jager – Joint Managing Director
d[at]byteplay.com, +44-779-0663157

About BytePlay Limited – holding company of DotHomes
BytePlay is a London-based search technology company. It was founded in May 2006 by Artemi Krymski and Douglas de Jager, two young alumni of Europe’s leading technology university, Imperial College London; and is now equity backed by three of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital groups, The Accelerator Group (TAG), Arts Alliance and Samos Investment. BytePlay focuses on the development of fast-scaling data-mining technologies for the Web. DotHomes.com is the company’s first consumer-facing product - a real estate search engine which covers the U.K., South Africa and the U.S. In June 2007, Krymski was selected by Business Week as one of Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007. In July 2007, DotHomes was picked out by The Guardian newspaper as one of its Top 10 dotcoms to watch. In November 2007, Esquire magazine short-listed DotHomes as Best New Idea at its Man at the Top Awards 2007 - along with Waitrose, Fashion Academy and Yotel. In March 2008, DotHomes was selected to be part of Web Mission, a UKTI-backed initiative to take the U.K.’s 20 leading technology companies to meet their counterparts in the U.S.

Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Global Sponsor of The 2008 International Business Awards is Dow Jones. Premier sponsor of the September 8 awards gala is IDA Ireland. Supporting Sponsors include BT Conferencing and Weber Shandwick UK. National Sponsors include the Korean Business Communicators Association and the Public Relations Society of India. Media Sponsors include CorpComms magazine and Berlin’s JazzRadio 101.9. Localization Partner for the 2008 IBAs is Lionbridge.