Valley company launches communication software

August 21, 2011 at 5:18p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

“Did you get my email?”

It’s a phrase articulated innumerable times at businesses all over the world.

For years, it appeared to be the only way to ensure that a co-worker or business acquaintance received and read an email.

Via680, a Youngstown Business Incubator portfolio company headed by Tony DeAscentis, former Turning Technologies vice president of marketing, just launched Ving 2.0, a new software it hopes will revolutionize email and streamline business communication.

“There’s this huge cultural phenomenon going on,” DeAscentis said. “People are saying, ‘I’m tired of email.’”

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.