Merchants 'Plug-In' to Vir2o's Online Business Pages

ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - Aug 19, 2013) - Vir2o (http://www.vir2o.com/), a new social media platform by East Coast Diversified Corporation (OTCQB: ECDC), today unveiled a number of consumer-friendly widgets that will be made available to all merchants who take advantage of its business pages.

The widgets include buttons such as: Share (to allow members to share business pages and specials with friends and family), Like (so members can show their support), Follow (giving members the ability to keep up to date with news) and Voice It (letting members leave comments on the businesses' pages).

"Our new widgets can be seen as the opposite but complementary side of our proprietary nVite technology that alerts online merchants the second a potential customer lands on their page," said Kayode Aladesuyi, chairman and chief executive officer of East Coast Diversified Corp. "We recognize that social media can be a lonely media, despite the name, and we are working hard to overcome this."

About East Coast Diversified Corporation (OTCQB: ECDC) -- ECDC is a holding corporation with a diversified group of technology companies. Its business portfolio includes companies offering technology for logistics and asset management, media entertainment, transportation safety and class attendance monitoring and social media applications. For more information on ECDC and its group of companies, please visit www.eastcoastdiversified.com or www.vir2o.com.

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