A large contingent from the wealthiest and highest spending consumer group the world has ever known will be visiting Britain in their biggest numbers this week.

How J.P. Morgan helped bring squash into the limelight at Grand Central station.

The antecedents of one of the Future Foundation’s favourite new trends, the Power of Quiet, are various and heavily intertwined, like the roots of a well-established plant that has just bloomed spectacularly after several years without flowers.

I moved from Britain to the US 10 years ago. With the move came lots of new culture and also a new lexicon, as chips became fries, the tube became the subway and football became, well, football (no Brit would ever say soccer).

It may not be earmarked in any record books, but 2013 was a monumental year for mobile devices. Total smartphone users in the U.S.

It can be hard to isolate marketing’s impact on the launch of a new product. The quality of the product, the creativity of the communications, the state of the economy or indeed the weather can all make a difference.