Tag: Olympics

The Olympics are over… but are they really?

While the 2012 Olympic Games are now but a distant memory, the buzz and hype certainly aren’t. More than just medals and great athletic performances were created over the summer. Back in July, we told you all about Visa’s efforts to make the 2012 Olympics cashless. Visa gave more than 1,000 “key stakeholders and decision […]

What can the Olympics tell us about mobile and tablet…

Following the closing of the London 2012 Olympics and the handing over of the flag to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Games, stats and facts are abounding fast. Did you know, for example, that 2.7 million bananas were eaten in the Olympic Village? Or that only 44% of medallists sang along with their national […]

Does mobile performance deserve a gold medal at the 2012…

So, for all those interested, the 2012 Olympics are fully underway in the UK. Sports enthusiasts around the world are following their favorite disciplines and notching up the medals each athlete is winning. If the Beijing Olympics were called the first ‘Digital Olympics’, the 2012 are angling for the first ‘Social Olympics’ tag. And so […]