The NFC retail payments market is expected to be worth more than $180 billion globally by 2017, according to Juniper Research.
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A YouGov survey published by Interxion has revealed that around 20% will watch the Olympics online, around a third of those who intend to view the Games on a more traditional TV platform.
By 2016 around 40% of global mobile users will subscribe to mobile broadband, compared to 15% currently, which could cause revenues to soar to nearly $100 billion, according to Infonetics Research.
BBC Worldwide announced profits of 8% amid the news that downloads of its global BBC iPlayer app have hit one million since its trial launch a year ago.
The BBC will show the next four Olympic Games – two summer and two winter – after coming to an exclusive agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which will be in place until 2020.
