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I blogged about the rumors in the past, but Google made it official yesterday and announced the launch of their own venture capital fund. Reports are that 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…

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…