NBC outperformed its own predictions for its Olympic coverage, despite criticisms during the past two weeks.

The YouView homepage now features an app for BSkyB’s Now TV, with films available for as little as 99p.

Last night’s Olympic closing ceremony attracted a peak audience of 26 million viewer. The ceremony, with performances from the Spice Girls, Take That and The Who, banked 22.9 million average viewers and a massive 80.7% audience share for BBC One.

NBC’s Olympic ‘TV Everywhere’ coverage used 34% of total bandwidth across major US networks in the first seven days of the London 2012 Games.

BSkyB’s share price briefly reached a nine-month high yesterday following news of the Sky Sports victory against Ofcom.

Last night’s BBC One coverage of the men’s 200m semi-final with Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake attracted a peak audience of 10.5 million viewers at 8.15pm.

BSkyB has won its appeal against Ofcom’s decision to force the company to reduce the price it charges rival providers to show Sky Sports.

News Corporation made a loss of $1.6 billion (£1.2 billion) in the last quarter, compared with a net income of $163 million in the same period last year.

During the Olympic games, half of searches and video streams have come from mobiles and tablets, according to Google.

The UK has passed its high-speed broadband milestone, with two million subscribers at the beginning of July, according to Point Topic.