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Mark Probert

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News

Linebreak and New Icon join forces to deliver innovative real-time solutions

Linebreak UK, a leader in enterprise real-time solutions, is pleased to announce a merger with New Icon, specialists in design-led software and AI engineering. The merger will create a focused capability enabling enterprises to become real-time businesses for efficiency and growth in a fast-moving, distributed world.  

Bristol-based New Icon brings 15+ years’ experience in delivering ambitious IoT, digital and AI solutions through agile design-thinking and engineering. Linebreak leverages decades of architecture expertise and a unique technology ecosystem, enabling enterprises to harness distributed and edge AI solutions.  

Linebreak CEO, Dolo Miah, explained, “together Linebreak and New Icon will deliver the next

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Tom Groombridge

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Events

What Four Events Told Tom About the State of Digital Transformation

A collage depicting business activities, including a person using a tablet, another holding cash, hands typing on a laptop, and another working on a computer.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been to Bath Digital Festival, Utilities Live, Smart Manufacturing Week and WEAF 2025.  Different sectors. Different scales. But the same underlying conversation kept surfacing.

Are we shaping technology around the business, or shaping the business around what the tech happens to offer?

As far as I'm concerned, there isn’t a right answer. And that’s the point.

Startups and smaller teams are often doing well with off-the-shelf SaaS. It gives them a quick way to move, stay lean and keep their focus where it matters. For many, it’s exactly what’s needed.

For larger organisations, particularly

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