For immediate release (Calgary, AB Canada)
April 10, 2000
 

Calgary, AB (April 10, 2000) - Zi Corporation (NASDAQ: ZICA) (TSE: ZIC) has been approved by the Nasdaq-Amex Market Group to begin trading on the Nasdaq National Market on April 11, 2000. Zi is moving onto the National Market from the Nasdaq Small Cap Market and retains the same ticker symbol: ZICA.

Zi has had great success with its Nasdaq Small Cap listing. During the past year, Zi’s investor base has almost doubled, from about 8,500 shareholders to just over 15,000. Zi has been trading on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market since 1994.

"Zi’s move to the National Market makes our stock available to a new range of investors," says Michael Lobsinger, chairman and chief executive officer, Zi Corporation. "Being on the National Market opens Zi to a broader audience of analysts, institutions and other investment professionals."

In the past year, Zi has made the transition from research and development to a solid operating company. Zi has signed contracts with over 20 licensees from around the world. In the fourth quarter of 1999, Zi started seeing royalty revenue as its customers introduced new products to market.

"Zi is focused on providing technology and education services that are needed for the global market," says Lobsinger. "Zi has demonstrated the broad possibilities for its technology by licensing to companies in a wide range of spaces including: equipment manufacturers, total solution providers, reference design and chipset providers and application software developers."

Zi Corporation is a leading provider of embedded software technology and educational products. The company’s core product, eZiText^TM connects people to short messaging, email, e-commerce, web browsing, and similar applications in almost any written language. Zi’s wholly owned subsidiary, Oztime.com, is China’s first education service provider. Zi supports its strategic partners from offices in Calgary, Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Shenzhen and Stockholm. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).

Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The information in this press release is based on Zi Corporation’s current expectation and assumptions, and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such risks include, among others, general business and economic conditions and competitive actions as well as the risks and uncertainties referred to in Zi Corporation’s 20-F for the most recent calendar year.

For further information, please contact: 

Karen Attwell 
Manager, Investor/Media Relations 
Phone: (403) 233-8875 
Email: investor@zicorp.com
Web site: http://www.zicorp.com/