The company split itself in two, one half publishing the magazine and the other managing the mainframe database of content that powered the magazine (and eventually, on-screen listings.) Benefitting, perhaps, from the fact that the content of the magazine was highly structured (and repetitive) to begin with, the database part of the company set out to abstract the ongoing production of the listings from their printed form.

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The company is set to ramp up production from its current estimate of 229, 000 motorcycles this year.

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The siblings set up their own production company, Centroplis Entertainment, through which they've made 14 feature films.

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Berger notes that with 72.5 million iPhones set for production for the first three quarters of 2011, the company could see 100 million iPhone builds for the full year.

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With the production time set to drop from 24 months to under a year as the company expands, the floating "Orsos Islands" might very soon become a not-too-permanent fixture on the horizon.

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While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.

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