Earnings Call Excerpt
Google Inc. (GOOG)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
January 22, 2009 4:30 pm ET
Executives
Krista Bessinger - Director of IR
Eric Schmidt - Chairman and CEO
Patrick Pichette - SVP and CFO
Jonathan Rosenberg - SVP, Product Management
Omid Kordestani - SVP of Global Sales & Business Development
Analysts
Ben Schachter - UBS
Imran Khan - JPMorgan
Justin Post - Merrill Lynch
Spencer Wang - Credit Suisse
Mark Mahaney - Citigroup
James Mitchell - Goldman Sachs
Doug Anmuth - Barclays Capital
Christa Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners
Heath Terry - FBR Capital Markets
Presentation
Operator
Good day and welcome everyone to the Google Inc. Conference Call. This call is being recorded.
At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Ms. Krista Bessinger, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, ma'am.
Krista Bessinger
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to today's fourth quarter 2008 Earnings Call.
With us are Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer joining from New York; Patrick Pichette, Chief Financial Officer; and Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Products Management, both joining from Mountain View; and Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations is joining from London. Eric, Patrick and Jonathan will provide us with the results on the quarter, and then Omid will join us for Q&A.
Please note that this call is being webcast from our Investor Relations website located at investor.google.com. Please refer to our website for important information, including our earnings press release issued a few minutes ago, along with slides that accompany today's prepared remarks.
A replay of this call will also be available on our website in a few hours. Please note that we routinely post important information on our Investor Relations website, located at investor.google.com, and we encourage you to make use of that resource.
In addition, please note that we're moving to a two-call structure this quarter. First, we will host our traditional strategic overview and Q&A with the usual format, followed by a second call which is effectively an extended Q&A session giving the opportunity for participants to ask more detailed financial and products questions in an efficient and regulatory compliant manner. The second call will begin at 3 PM Pacific and will also be webcast from our Investor Relations website.
Now, let me quickly cover the Safe Harbor. Some of the statements we make today may be considered forward-looking, including statements regarding investments in our core business, expected performance of aspects of our business, profit acquisition costs, operational efficiency in costs, our expected level of capital expenditures, and our proposed option exchange program, including the expected resulting modification charge. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.
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