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I Google will commit about $100MM to the fund. According to their blog post, they plan on investing in other sectors than just Internet and software: We’ll be focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven’t thought…

The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, and VentureBeat are reporting this morning that Google is currently putting the pieces together to launch an internal venture capital arm. This isn’t the first time rumors have swirled about Google launching a venture capital fund, but the speculation is increasing based upon Google’s hiring of William Maris, a former…