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• hotelicopter Announces the Launch of hotelicopter To Go
  (November 18th, 2009)
• New interactive map makes finding great hotel deals even easier
  (October 20th, 2009)
• Piper Jaffray Calls hotelicopter.com The Emerging Hotel Meta-Search Site
  (October 8th, 2009)
• Carl Schwartz Appointed Chief Marketing Officer of hotelicopter
  (October 6th, 2009)
• hotelicopter Launches Hotel Ratings Through Facebook Connect
  (July 21st, 2009)
• Colin Steele Appointed hotelicopter’s Chief Technology Officer
  (June 30th, 2009)
• Trip Davis Named Chairman of hotelicopter
  (April 29th, 2009)
• hotelicopter Launches Totally Awesome Hotel Search Engine
  (April 9th, 2009)

• hotelicopter.com Featured on WFLA-AM Tampa
  (WFLA-AM Tampa, February 13th, 2010)
• hotelicopter.com featured on MSNBC
  (MSNBC, December 12th, 2009)
• hotelicopter.com featured on WNBC-TV New York
  (WNBC-TV New York, December 11th, 2009)
• Beer, brainstorming create Internet buzz
  (The Daily Progress, April 10th, 2009)
• Hotel search site links to Facebook
  (Travel Weekly, April 9th, 2009)
• Is There Room for Hotelicopter?
  (BNET, April 9th, 2009)
• VibeAgent Ceases, Replaced By hotelicopter
  (Hotels Magazine, April 9th, 2009)
• One Brilliant Hoax Later, Hotelicopter Joins The Hotel Aggregation Fray
  (TechCrunch, April 8th, 2009)
• Hotelicopter is real, though simply a travel search engine
  (CNET, April 8th, 2009)
• ‘Hotelicopter’ is Actually a New Hotel Search Engine. Oh.
  (HotelChatter, April 8th, 2009)

• VibeAgent Raises $3 Million for its Hotel Search Engine
  (November 18th, 2008)
• VibeAgent.com Names John DeMarchi as Director of User Experience
  (May 14th, 2008)
• VibeAgent.com Redefines the Online Hotel Booking Experience With Innovative Combination of Search and Social Features
  (April 29th, 2008)
• VibeAgent - Now Featuring 360° Virtual Hotel Tours
  (February 18th, 2008)
• VibeAgent Adds Priceline Veteran to Management Team
  (December 7th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Announces New Hotel Booking Site That Combines User-Generated Reviews, Meta-search, and Social Networking
  (November 14th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Launches My Maps; Teams Up with TravelWorm and OneTravel
  (August 14th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Closes Seed Round, Names Trip Davis to its Board
  (July 20th, 2007)

• Darden Grads Find Success In Hard Times
  (The Daily Progress, November 30th, 2008)
• VibeAgent Attracts Major New Round Of Funding
  (Travolution, November 18th, 2008)
• VibeAgent Raises $3 Million To Join Crowded Hotel Search Market
  (Tech Crunch, November 17th, 2008)
• Hotel search site VibeAgent raises $3M
  (Venture Beat, November 17th, 2008)
• Entrepreneurs Take Risks Despite Downturn
  (All Things Considered - NPR, November 6th, 2008)
• Hotel Search Site Shows There’s Room In the City
  (The Daily Progress, August 17, 2008)
• California, Here They Come
  (The Courier-Journal, June 1, 2008)
• Today in the Sky Gets Around
  (USA Today’s “Today in the Sky”, May 22, 2008)
• More new Web sites to help your travel research
  (Chicago Tribune, April 27th, 2008)
• In Pictures: Seven Top Sites For Planning Your Escape
  (Forbes.com, April 2008)
• Hit The Books
  (Entrepreneur.com, April 2008)
• Online Comparison Sites Move Beyond Price
  (MSNBC, February 20th, 2008)
• Five Up-and-Coming Sites You Should Know About
  (Washington Post, February 3rd, 2008)
• Youth is Served at VibeAgent
  (USA Today, November 23rd, 2007)
• VibeAgent: A New Kind of Travel Site
  (NBC 29, November 14th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Makes Strong Entry Into Social Travel Market
  (Read/Write Web, November 14th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Steps Out Of Beta, Wants To Defeat TripAdvisor With People Power
  (TechCrunch, November 14th, 2007)
• When Chat Matters: Hoteliers Cashing in on Internet Postings
  (Travel Weekly, September 24th, 2007 - Requires Registration)
• Hip New Hotel Review Site
  (Washington Post, September 20th, 2007)
• Darden graduates open up hotel portal
  (DailyProgress.com, September 9th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Hotel Review Community Builds Momentum
  (Vacant Ready, August 14th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Launches My Maps
  (Web Pro News, August 12th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Moves to 5th Largest Hotel Search Worldwide
  (Mashable, August 12th, 2007)
• Web Sites Unveil Unique Approaches
  (MSNBC, July 24th, 2007)
• Best of the Net
  (The Guardian Newspaper, July 21st, 2007)
• VibeAgent: TripAdvisor 2.0
  (TechCrunch, July 19th, 2007)
• VibeAgent Raises Funding and Gains Trip Davis on Board of Directors
  (Mashable, July 19th, 2007)
• Why do I like VibeAgent…
  (Hotel Blogs, July 4th, 2007)
• Happy iPhone Day with VibeAgent
  (Indie Hotelier, July 2nd, 2007)
• VibeAgent Starts Even Smarter
  (Bill Geist, June 21st, 2007)
• Traveler-Based Review Sites Getting More Personal
  (USA Today, June 15th, 2007)
• VibeAgent: The Ultimate Web 2.0 Hotel Site?
  (Happy Hotelier, June 13th, 2007)
• VibeAgent: New Player in the Online Travel Sector
  (gottaquirk, June 10th, 2007)
• Social network to your next hotel room
  (Business 2.0, June 7th, 2007)
• VibeAgent - TripAdvisor meets Kayak meets Facebook
  (Hotel Marketing, June 6th, 2007)
• VibeAgent: Exclusive Invitations for Beta Test and Special Review
  (Les Explorers, May 31st, 2007)
• A New Player in the Travel 2.0 World
  (Hotel Blogs, May 9th, 2007)
• New Hotel Website Startup - VibeAgent.com
  (Jens Thraenhart, March 28th 2007)