RPO, Inc. Wins Prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award

San Jose, California - January 13, 2010 -- RPO Inc. today announced that it is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Asia Award, a coveted accolade given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the region. Specifically, RPO was recognized for its innovation in developing an optical touch technology called Digital Waveguide Touch™ (DWT™), and the technology’s potential for a variety of applications such as cell phones, cameras, consumer products, netbooks, car navigation systems, e-books and laptop computers.

For more than a decade, Red Herring's editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising start-ups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past Red Herring Top 100 award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com and YouTube.

RPO’s (DWT™) technology provides a highly differentiated optical touch technology to one of the fastest growing markets today. Touch is finding widespread application in a range of products, including cell phones, cameras, consumer products, netbooks, car navigation systems, e-books and laptop computers. The company’s technology is the only product that provides touch interaction with a pen, finger, gloved finger or any object and has superior optical performance over other technologies because it does not cause any deterioration of brightness and contrast to the displayed image on the screen. It can sense multiple touch points, as well as the size and width of the touch object and is ideally suited for Windows 7.  Furthermore, the patented technology is simple, elegant and low cost—ensuring that the waveguides can be made at suitable cost for the consumer electronics market.

“We are honored to be recognized by Red Herring with this esteemed award, which provides further testimony to RPO’s efforts in developing a unique, optical touch technology that will revolutionize the touch display market,” noted Malcolm Thompson, RPO’s chairman and CEO. “RPO continues to demonstrate DWT’s scalability in providing a unique handwriting and finger multi-touch capability in a wide range of product formats and sizes with a competitive cost structure that is scalable to even low cost manufacturing.”

“The Red Herring 100 winners include the most innovative and effective private technology companies in the world. With the rapid emergence of touch displays in electronic devices, RPO’s unique DWT touch technology offers a unique, cost-effective solution for touch displays—making them a formidable force in the near-future,” said Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring.

Red Herring’s annual lists of top private companies are an important part of the company’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Past recipients have been touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work. Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than 800 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

About RPO

RPO, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware and has headquarters in San Jose. The core technologies have been developed at its research and development facilities in Canberra and Sydney, Australia. It has received venture funding from existing investors including Australian funds managed by Jolimont Capital, by Allen & Buckeridge and by Neo Technology Ventures; and from BASF Venture Capital and from Jafco. For more information visit www.rpo.biz.

RPO Contact :
Malcolm Thompson
T: 408.505.9773
m.thompson@rpo.biz

Public Relations Contact:
Stacey Voorhees-Harmon
T: 925.336.9592
stacey@savvypublicrelations.net