Coinbase and RewardsPay Bring Bitcoin to iTunes, Facebook and Grooveshark
Coinbase and RewardsPay are partnering to allow customers to pay for thousands of products at mainstream online retailers such as iTunes, Facebook, Boozt, Heels.com, World Golf Tour, Club Penguin, Grooveshark and more. RewardsPay is a payment service that caters to consumers, allowing them to use cash rewards, hotel points, airline miles, credit card reward points and now bitcoin to pay for items. RewardsPay claims they enable reward programs such as Discover's Cashback Bonus to improve customer loyalty and redemption. Anu Shukla, founder and CEO of RewardsPay, said: "Adding support for....
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Here's another big company accepting bitcoin for premium services. Music streaming service Grooveshark is now accepting the digital currency in a move that makes it one of the first companies in the music space to embrace bitcoin. Users have the opportunity to pay $5 per month for the service or $50 annually. You can see in the screenshot above that Bitcoin is clearly listed aside traditional payment methods (in addition to promotional codes, of course). Although interestingly, it doesn't appear as if the company has integrated any form of third-party payment processor like Coinbase and....
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