08 Jun 2012Bob Schukai

Today, Thomson Reuters announced the acquisition of Apsmart, a London-based mobile design firm.  I think this was a tremendous move on the part of the company for a number of reasons.

First, I think that this acquisition speaks to the reality of the world today.  Very soon, there will be more mobile phones on the planet than people.  Wherever I go, whatever I do, I am constantly connected through my mobile devices.  So are you.  That connection exists in both our personal lives as well as our professional lives; in fact, our late head of research and development at Thomson Reuters, Dr. Peter Jackson, framed our lives as a “work-life blur.”  Mobile technology is at the heart of this. (more…)