Bank of America Made $168 Million Last Quarter, More or Less. Bank of America reported earnings this morning, and here is your fun quiz on those earnings.
It has one question. The question is, was Bank of America's income last quarter: more than zero, or less than zero? I mean, right there in the headline of the earnings release, you can see that Bank of America made $168 million last quarter, which is a positive number with nine whole digits. The 20 Smartest Things Jeff Bezos Has Ever Said (AMZN) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) was once the poster child of what happens when excitement about a company detaches from reality.
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Dick Costolo sits for plenty of interviews.
But Twitter's CEO had never played the role of interviewer until Thursday, when he grilled Ben Horowitz, the hip-hop-loving partner in Menlo Park-based venture capital powerhouse firm Andreessen Horowitz, at our Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco. Since Horowitz is an early investor in Twitter (what's your revenue model again?) Wired 13.12: The Neopets Addiction. 20 million kids can't get enough - and neither can advertisers.
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