Is Google negotiating to acquire YouTube for $ 1.6 billion?

The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times reported that Google is negotiating to buy YouTube for $ 1.6 billion.

Details are as follows. We also looked for companies that were acquired in the past for an amount of 1.6 billion dollars.
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If it is 1.6 billion dollars, it is about 188.8 billion yen. So, what kind of things are there in the past when saying companies that were acquired at this amount, Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a sponsored search (advertisement type search) engine Overture The amount when I bought it was just $ 1.6 billion.

Yahoo!, Advertisement Search Engine Overture acquired for 1.6 billion dollars (MYCOM Journal)

The settlement of litigation over Sun's Java and Microsoft's Java is also $ 1.6 billion.

Paying settlement money of 1.6 billion dollars to a partnership (MYCOM Journal)

By the way, this 1.6 billion dollar is the same as the sales of eBay, the largest auction site overseas, from January to March.

Looking at this way, is it a little less than 1.6 billion dollars, compared with the current YouTube scale and future potential? For Google, it may be that the acquisition of YouTube is more meaningful to erase Google Video's rival.