{"id":"tp-1498","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Fortune 500 company Avnet starts accepting bitcoin via BitPay partnership","author":"Shampa Mani","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/1498","datePublished":"2019-03-20T07:44:08.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-20T07:44:08.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Avnet, a U.S.-based technology solutions provider, has announced that it has started accepting cryptocurrency for its products and services via its partnership with blockchain payment provider BitPay.","section":"Business","references":[{"title":"Avnet","url":"https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/us/"},{"title":"BitPay","url":"https://bitpay.com/"},{"title":"@BitPay","url":"https://twitter.com/BitPay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"},{"title":"@Bitcoin","url":"https://twitter.com/Bitcoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"},{"title":"#AvnetReachFurther","url":"https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvnetReachFurther?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"},{"title":"https://t.co/S2wv0xqjWv","url":"https://t.co/S2wv0xqjWv"},{"title":"pic.twitter.com/XOf6ta2gIP","url":"https://t.co/XOf6ta2gIP"},{"title":"March 19, 2019","url":"https://twitter.com/Avnet/status/1108026200318836742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"},{"title":"official release","url":"https://news.avnet.com/press-release/avnet/avnet-leads-industry-accepting-cryptocurrency"},{"title":"also partnered with BitPay","url":"https://news.bitcoin.com/wikipedia-now-accepts-bitcoin-cash-donations-via-bitpay/"},{"title":"started accepting bitcoin","url":"https://tokenpost.com/Largest-Swiss-online-retailer-Digitec-Galaxus-starts-accepting-Bitcoin-1495"},{"title":"Donate","url":"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GD9D8CPW8HFA2"}]}