For Xiaomi, partnering with iQiyi, which like Youku-Tudou is one of China's largest online video platforms, means that it will have more content to provide as it tries to entice more users into its multi-screen ecosystem of mobile devices and smart televisions.
It wasn't money these architects of our demise were after, but rather the satisfaction and security they anticipated money would provide — as it had after their first windfalls.
The point of this wouldn't be to compete with, let alone replace, the work of official investigators, but rather to provide, as it were, another set of eyes, one that might see something that investigators missed.
And now the British and American "editors" of Amazon have generously supplied two lists of "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime" to provide, as it were, a long footnote to Shaw's witticism.
And finally one-day cricket is alive and well, a richly textured short form, still evolving, still finding new forms; and still able to captivate and entertain and provide, as it has this summer, some genuinely beguiling cricketers.
The season might even provide, as it does this summer for Patricia Richardson and Ken Olin, for example, a chance to perform onstage after two decades or longer focusing on film and television.
