Thomson Reuters is scaling down its merger and acquisition activity. The change in strategy was enunciated in an earnings call last week by CEO James Smith who said acquisition efforts would focus on tuck-in purchases.

A recent study reported 28 percent of all respondents would give up their significant other before giving up a smartphone. Even if that might not be a completely serious answer by some users, there is no doubt that mobile devices - smartphones and tablet computers – have become pervasive and a critical part of the modern business environment.

Thomson Reuters has taken steps that should prevent the recurrence of a problem that affected cloud applications last week. The company says authentication problems shut out users of its Virtual Office and SaaS products for several hours on Friday, October 25.