Spun-off from I²R in January 2010, Knorex is anchored with a portfolio of technologies licensed from Exploit Technologies. Knorex Lumina™ has been developed based on the licensed technology done by Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman and Mr Ang Wee Tiong, research scientists from the institute. Dr. Justin Choo, a former member of the research team, is now the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knorex.

Dr. Christopher Baker, the former Principal Investigator of the STG at I²R, now the Chief Scientific Officer of Knorex, and Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Canada added, “The emergence of Knorex is a significant milestone in the proliferation of Semantic Technologies in Asia. It shows the maturity of expertise and takes the initial reduction to practice to a new level. Moreover it comes at a critical time as more and more enterprises are acknowledging the need for semantic solutions.”

Philip Lim, Chief Executive Officer of Exploit Technologies, said, “Knorex’s value proposition aptly leverages A*STAR technology to meet the challenges facing business enterprises today. Organisations that have begun to merge their business architecture with their technology architecture will find Knorex Lumina™ a welcoming prescription in making sense of the massive amounts of data residing across different sources. The initial interest from enterprise users in this semantic technology has reached a sufficient scale that it is appropriate to set up an independent company to fully commercialise the service. The formation of Knorex is another example of the commercially relevant research being undertaken at A*STAR.”

Prof Lye Kin Mun, Deputy Executive Director (Research) of I²R, said, “With vast amounts of business and personal information being exchanged daily, it comes as no surprise that our I²R researchers (Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman and Ang Wee Tiong) focused on technologies that fit the needs of those who participate in knowledge management. I would like to congratulate Dr. Justin Choo of Knorex for this spin-off and creating real world solutions and wish Knorex the best in their commercialisation efforts!”

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Media enquiries, please contact:

Justin Choo (Dr)
CEO
Knorex Pte Ltd
DID	: (65) 6273 3308
Mobile: (65) 8228 6345
Email: justin_choo@knorex.com

Woo Kwai Merng (Ms)
Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications
Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (A member of A*STAR)
DID	: (65) 6478 8443
Mobile: (65) 9711 9001
Email	: weipeng@exploit-tech.com

Andrew Yap (Mr)
Acting Manager, Corporate Communications
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
DID: (65) 6419 1143
Fax: (65) 6466 7716
Email: yapjt@scei.a-star.edu.sg

About Knorex
Based in Singapore, Knorex Pte. Ltd. is a privately-held software development company specialized in the development of knowledge discovery applications using Semantic Technologies. We offer companies and individuals a complete and flexible platform for easy acquisition, aggregation, heterogeneous integration and reasoning of proprietary and externally acquired data to enable smarter knowledge discovery and better intelligence. Highly modular and customizable, integrated access and intuitive, our software makes it easy and simple for even non-expert or non-technical users to engage in expert-intensive domains to efficiently and effectively make sense of their data and resources to gain competitive edge, deeper understanding of their operation/activities, or to uncover new opportunities for growth or better use of resources.

For more information, please visit www.knorex.com

About Exploit Technologies
Exploit Technologies is the strategic marketing and commercialisation arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Its mission is to support A*STAR in transforming the economy through commercialising R&D. Exploit Technologies enhances the research output of A*STAR scientists by translating their inventions into marketable products or processes.

Through licensing deals with industry partners and spin‐offs, Exploit Technologies is a key driver of technology transfer in Singapore. It actively engages industry leaders and players to commercialise A*STAR's technologies and capabilities, bridging the gap from Mind to Market. Exploit Technologies’ charter is to identify, protect and exploit promising intellectual property (IP) created by A*STAR’s research institutes.

For more information, please visit www.exploit-tech.com

About Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R)
The Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R - pronounced as i-squared-r) is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family. Established in 2002, our mission is to be the globally preferred source of innovations in `Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere’ through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore’s economic success. I²R performs R&D in information, communications and media (ICM) technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain. Our research capabilities are in information technology, wireless and optical communication networks, interactive and digital media; signal processing and computing. We seek to be the infocomm and media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead.

For more information, please visit www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg

The aim of this partnership is to improve the delivery and discoverability of relevant content to the TheStar's readers while enhancing the level of automation in TheStar's existing workflow.

Several new applications and a number of interesting features are expected to be rolled out in stages. These features enable the readers to easily follow the latest development of companies and personalities in the news, and be notified of new developments when they occurlatest news when it occurs.

In addition, existing scattered but related information will be integrated to provide a reader with unified access to all the relevant information within a single location or story page. Such integration makes it convenient and easy for readers to locate information while simultaneously enabling further discovery of new and related material.

Justin Tan, Director of Knorex, said, "We are thriled to partner with The Star which has been receptive to leveraging on semantic technology to enhance their readers' overall user experience. This partnership gives us the opportunity to demonstrate the efficacy of our systems and applications to a broad audience."

Davin Arul, Vice President of New Media at The Star, said, "We have been looking for ways to enhance engagement our readers, not only for ourselves but for our advertisers too."

"The Knorex team's expertise has helped us in developing a fresh and effective approach to this. We look forward to furthering our collaboration and leveraging on The Star media group's better exploiting the diverse contents that we have."

Several projects are already underway to realize the vision of this partnership. The new applications and features are also expected to be introduced into mobile platforms to afford readers greater access to information.

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For media enquiries, please contact:

Davin Arul
Vice President, New Media
Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad
Email: davin@thestar.com.my

Justin Tan
Director
Knorex 
Email: justin_tan@knorex.com

About Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad

Its online news portal The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my) was launched in 1995 and is the No. 1 news portal in Malaysia according to research on national Internet usage patterns conducted by the Malaysian Digital Association (MDA). The Star Online attracts more than 2.1 million unique visitors a month. Its Business section (http://biz.thestar.com.my) attracts 650,000 unique visitors monthly and is the top business news portal in the country, according to MDA figures.

The group also owns three radio stations (RedFM, 98.8 and SuriaFM) and a number of subsidiaries with a broad scope of operations from leadership development to event management as well as R&D.

For more information, please visit http://thestar.com.my/

About Knorex

For more information, please visit www.knorex.com

Singapore, 17th March 2010 -- Knorex Pte. Ltd. had on 12 March 2010 licensed from Exploit Technologies a portfolio of technologies that has gone into the creation of an enterprise-level service-oriented knowledge discovery platform that performs meaningful aggregation, mining and integration to bridge disparate silos of information. The portfolio of Semantic Technologies is developed by Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman’s team at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

A 2009 report from Deloitte that talks about “Cognitive Overload” estimates that the amount of worldwide information doubles every 18 months, and corporate files double every 3.5 years. More than 35 billion e-mails are sent each day. Combine that with Instant Messaging, SMS, phone calls, meetings and it becomes clear that the corporate world is experiencing an information overload. To compound the problem, much of this information is residing in different data systems. Single search requests have to be made within each information repository, forcing the results to be manually integrated for meaningful analysis. Furthermore, tools and data repositories are becoming increasingly complex to use; typically they fail to allow for more natural and intuitive query. Knorex’s technology, called Knorex Lumina™, seeks to provide a knowledge discovery and management infrastructure for seamless connection in an integrated enterprise. Knorex Lumina™ searches information from public as well as proprietary data sources in addition to structured information assets such as compound libraries and projects’ databases. The platform automatically categorises search results into meaningful groups, customised based on users’ requirements.

In the recent International Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Symposium (IRAHSS) 2010 event, Knorex partnered with i3S Monitor Pte. Ltd. to showcase a maritime security monitoring system using Knorex Lumina. Knorex are also working with Innovatia Inc. from Canada and several other partners to explore applications in a few other domains. Typically, the targeted users of Knorex’s solutions are medium and large sized organisations that are grappling with overwhelming stream of information and multiple mechanisms to engage that information. Other partners and customers are system integrators, software distributors, independent software vendors, researchers and software developers.

Spun-off from I²R in January 2010, Knorex is anchored with a portfolio of technologies licensed from Exploit Technologies. Knorex Lumina™ has been developed based on the licensed technology done by Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman and Mr Ang Wee Tiong, research scientists from the institute. Dr. Justin Choo, a former member of the research team, is now the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knorex.

Commenting on the spinning off process, Dr. Justin Choo, the Chief Executive Officer of Knorex, said, “Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman and Ang Wee Tiong from the Semantic Technology Group (STG) from the Data Mining Department, I²R, have developed a technological platform that can be applied to a wide range of applications. As an early adopter of the W3C standard technologies, the STG at I²R was able to innovate in the architectural combination and synergy of these technology standards with existing in-house expertise. Spinning off was an obvious next step for us as there is a huge unmet need in enterprises for Semantic Technologies. The challenge now is to accelerate its development and to apply it to the right focus. We have been working closely with the principal inventors on many fronts to ensure that the original vision is realised.”

Dr. Christopher Baker, the former Principal Investigator of the STG at I²R, now the Chief Scientific Officer of Knorex, and Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Canada added, “The emergence of Knorex is a significant milestone in the proliferation of Semantic Technologies in Asia. It shows the maturity of expertise and takes the initial reduction to practice to a new level. Moreover it comes at a critical time as more and more enterprises are acknowledging the need for semantic solutions.”

Philip Lim, Chief Executive Officer of Exploit Technologies, said, “Knorex’s value proposition aptly leverages A*STAR technology to meet the challenges facing business enterprises today. Organisations that have begun to merge their business architecture with their technology architecture will find Knorex Lumina™ a welcoming prescription in making sense of the massive amounts of data residing across different sources. The initial interest from enterprise users in this semantic technology has reached a sufficient scale that it is appropriate to set up an independent company to fully commercialise the service. The formation of Knorex is another example of the commercially relevant research being undertaken at A*STAR.”

Prof Lye Kin Mun, Deputy Executive Director (Research) of I²R, said, “With vast amounts of business and personal information being exchanged daily, it comes as no surprise that our I²R researchers (Dr. Kanagasabai Rajaraman and Ang Wee Tiong) focused on technologies that fit the needs of those who participate in knowledge management. I would like to congratulate Dr. Justin Choo of Knorex for this spin-off and creating real world solutions and wish Knorex the best in their commercialisation efforts!”

###

Media enquiries, please contact:

Justin Choo (Dr)
CEO
Knorex Pte Ltd
DID	: (65) 6273 3308
Mobile: (65) 8228 6345
Email: justin_choo@knorex.com

Seeto Wei Peng (Ms)
Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications
Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (A member of A*STAR)
DID	: (65) 6478 8443
Mobile: (65) 9711 9001
Email	: weipeng@exploit-tech.com

Andrew Yap (Mr)
Acting Manager, Corporate Communications
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
DID: (65) 6419 1143
Fax: (65) 6466 7716
Email: yapjt@scei.a-star.edu.sg

About Knorex
Based in Singapore, Knorex Pte. Ltd. is a privately-held software development company specialized in the development of knowledge discovery applications using Semantic Technologies. We offer companies and individuals a complete and flexible platform for easy acquisition, aggregation, heterogeneous integration and reasoning of proprietary and externally acquired data to enable smarter knowledge discovery and better intelligence. Highly modular and customizable, integrated access and intuitive, our software makes it easy and simple for even non-expert or non-technical users to engage in expert-intensive domains to efficiently and effectively make sense of their data and resources to gain competitive edge, deeper understanding of their operation/activities, or to uncover new opportunities for growth or better use of resources.

For more information, please visit www.knorex.com

About Exploit Technologies
Exploit Technologies is the strategic marketing and commercialisation arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Its mission is to support A*STAR in transforming the economy through commercialising R&D. Exploit Technologies enhances the research output of A*STAR scientists by translating their inventions into marketable products or processes.

Through licensing deals with industry partners and spin‐offs, Exploit Technologies is a key driver of technology transfer in Singapore. It actively engages industry leaders and players to commercialise A*STAR's technologies and capabilities, bridging the gap from Mind to Market. Exploit Technologies’ charter is to identify, protect and exploit promising intellectual property (IP) created by A*STAR’s research institutes.

For more information, please visit www.exploit-tech.com

About Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R)
The Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R - pronounced as i-squared-r) is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family. Established in 2002, our mission is to be the globally preferred source of innovations in `Interactive Secured Information, Content and Services Anytime Anywhere’ through research by passionate people dedicated to Singapore’s economic success. I²R performs R&D in information, communications and media (ICM) technologies to develop holistic solutions across the ICM value chain. Our research capabilities are in information technology, wireless and optical communication networks, interactive and digital media; signal processing and computing. We seek to be the infocomm and media value creator that keeps Singapore ahead.

For more information, please visit www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg

About i3S Monitor
i3S Monitor Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Intsight Pte. Ltd.) is a company providing solutions for organisations to monitor critical issues of concern and emerging risks and opportunities. The i3S Monitor team has its roots in the Singapore Government's Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning programme and brings with it experience in scenario planning, environmental scanning methodology and military intelligence processes. i3S Monitor leverages off technology and a network of experts in various domains to bring its clients robust solutions to solve business problems.

For more information, please visit www.i3s-monitor.com

About Innovatia
Innovatia Inc. offers an expansive set of Next Generation Knowledge Solutions and capabilities, including an eLearning content library, training, documentation, technical support, and professional services. Our solutions help businesses reduce costs and improve productivity through effective creation and distribution of information. Innovatia employs more than 300 people in Canada, United States and India and serves customers around the world in the telecommunications, information technology, energy, and health sectors.

For more information, please visit www.innovatia.net

About IRAHSS
IRAHSS is held annually to facilitate the exchange and collaboration of risk assessment and horizon scanning concepts, methods and technologies with a specialized audience. This event is jointly organised by the National Security Coordination Secretariat, the Defence Science and Technology Agency and the Centre of Excellence for National Security.

About i3S Monitor
i3S Monitor Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Intsight Pte. Ltd.) is a company providing solutions for organisations to monitor critical issues of concern and emerging risks and opportunities. The i3S Monitor team has its roots in the Singapore Government's Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning programme and brings with it experience in scenario planning, environmental scanning methodology and military intelligence processes. i3S Monitor leverages off technology and a network of experts in various domains to bring its clients robust solutions to solve business problems. For more information on the services provided by i3S Monitor, please visit its website at (http://www.i3s-monitor.com).

About Knorex
Based in Singapore, Knorex Pte. Ltd. is a privately-held software development company that is spun off from the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR. It specializes in the development of knowledge discovery applications using Semantic Technologies. The company offers companies and individuals a complete and flexible ontology-driven platform for easy acquisition, aggregation, heterogeneous integration and reasoning of proprietary and externally acquired data to enable smarter knowledge discovery and better intelligence. Highly modular and customizable, integrated access and intuitive, the flagship Knorex Lumina makes it easy and simple for even non-expert or non-technical users to engage in expert-intensive domains to efficiently and effectively make sense of their data and resources to gain competitive edge, deeper understanding of their operation/activities, or to uncover new opportunities for growth or better use of resources. For more information on Knorex, visit its website at (http://knorex.com).

Knorex media inquiries:
info@knorex.com

The partnership will see Knorex supplying the Knorex Lumina™ platform to i3S Monitor. i3S Monitor will use the platform to develop innovative and customized applications that support issues monitoring and risk assessment. The partnership allows both i3S Monitor and Knorex to tap on each other's domain expertise, and to identify new market opportunities in targeted domains for the applications.

Dr. Clifton Phua, Chief Information Officer of Knorex stated: "These days, customers are constantly inundated with voluminous data and information. Monitoring and tracking them have become increasingly difficult let alone discovering interesting facts and new information". Telvin Goh, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of i3S Monitor added, "Knorex has created a unique and complete knowledge discovery platform that enable us to easily develop our own applications over it. This frees us from development work and allows us to focus our attention on solving our clients' problems by ensuring that we can deliver significant value to our clients. Our value proposition is to provide the right tool for our clients to tame this 'information wildfire'".

Knorex Lumina™ is an enterprise-level service-oriented knowledge discovery platform designed from the ground-up to enable easy aggregation, mining and integration of a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources including websites, articles, journal, spreadsheets, text, RSS feeds, tweets and blogs. Querying and searching takes place within a single platform. It comes equipped with semantic-inference and reasoning capabilities, ready to enable easy discovery of new facts and possibly hidden knowledge.

About i3S Monitor
i3S Monitor Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Intsight Pte. Ltd.) is a company providing solutions for organisations to monitor critical issues of concern and emerging risks and opportunities. The i3S Monitor team has its roots in the Singapore Government's Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning programme and brings with it experience in scenario planning, environmental scanning methodology and military intelligence processes. i3S Monitor leverages off technology and a network of experts in various domains to bring its clients robust solutions to solve business problems. For more information on the services provided by i3S Monitor, please visit its website at (http://www.i3s-monitor.com).

About Knorex
Based in Singapore, Knorex Pte. Ltd. is a privately-held software development company that is spun off from the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR. It specializes in the development of knowledge discovery applications using Semantic Technologies. The company offers companies and individuals a complete and flexible ontology-driven platform for easy acquisition, aggregation, heterogeneous integration and reasoning of proprietary and externally acquired data to enable smarter knowledge discovery and better intelligence. Highly modular and customizable, integrated access and intuitive, the flagship Knorex Lumina makes it easy and simple for even non-expert or non-technical users to engage in expert-intensive domains to efficiently and effectively make sense of their data and resources to gain competitive edge, deeper understanding of their operation/activities, or to uncover new opportunities for growth or better use of resources. For more information on Knorex, visit its website at (http://knorex.com).

Knorex media inquiries:
info@knorex.com