As the country gears up for the Champions League final at Wembley tomorrow night – a bigger TV audience than the Superbowl is expected – and next year’s Olympics, Media Playground will add a topical bonus session this year to discuss sport’s commercial place in the digital world – The Olympic Digital Debate.

“We have a short operating history in a new and unproven market, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and may increase the risk that we will not be successful” – LinkedIn’s offer document.

As ITV publishes Q1 interim results today, Adam Crozier, chief executive, has admitted to a difficult Q2 for the broadcaster.

David Gilbertson, the chief executive of business-to-business publisher Emap, whose properties include Broadcast, Retail Week, Cannes Lions and BRAD, is to leave the company after three years.

WPP provided a positive statement this morning, upgrading its 2011 forecasts to growth of over 6% rather than the 5% previously forecast.

A new report in the US by Nielsen says that almost half of all U.S. citizens – 143.9 million – viewed some video online in January this year.

The invention of the iPad was predicted as long ago as 1994…

Yahoo has bolstered its mobile and connected TV offering with the purchase of IntoNow, whose mobile platform only went live in January, and is led by Adam Cahan, a former executive at Google and Viacom’s MTV.

YouTube is said to be launching its own on-demand Hollywood film stream, in direct competion with Apple’s iTunes, according to reports today in the Daily Mail.

comScore has announced the beta release of the comScore Media Metrix Total Universe report, which provides audience measurement across mobile phones, apps, tablets and shared computers such as Internet cafes.