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>Facebook is an insanely rich company to the tune of $192 billion as of September 2014

That's not exactly being rich, those aren't billions that Facebook can go spend in the same way as Apple can spend their cash reserves. The $192 billions is the evaluation of Facebook, not the money Facebook has available to spend.

Profits are what makes companies rich, not that Facebook is doing to badly in that department.

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Facebook is not a startup, it's a publicly traded company, meaning that its value is given by the numer of shares in the market times the stock price (which by this date is more than 226bn).

If we are talking about liquid cash, FB is sitting on 12 bn, which is not so far than AAPL 33 bn.

Apple cash reserve is $194 Billion (http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/04/27/194b-apple-ca...).

That article actually confirms the 33B "liquid cash" quoted in your parent. The other ~160B is "long-term investments".

last I looked at apple's financial statement,s that other 160 is in pretty liquid assets, in that if Apple wanted to spend 190 billion tomorrow, it basically could

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