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We (edit: briefly) changed the url from http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-nears-1-billion-investmen... because (a) this confirmation supersedes that information and (b) paywalls lead threads off-topic.

Edit: Never mind. So many posts of the confirmed news are popping up that there needs to be a new thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8919901 is a reasonable article and not behind a paywall, so it may as well be the one.