Microsoft is rumored to be in talks with Mojang to buy the company for 2 billion dollars.
First time I heard of it a couple days ago I thought this was some crazy unfounded rumor, but more and more places have picked this up. I found it almost impossible to believe because Notch has been openly critical of Microsoft in the past, and Oculus rift selling out to Facebook.
But according to the original source it was actually Notch himself who "reached out to Microsoft a few months ago, based on a positive working relationship on Minecraft for Xbox." Neither MS nor Mojang have commented on the story so far, and the minecraft forum newspost is already exploding with overwhelmingly negative reactions to it.
In my view the fact Mojang hasn't commented means the rumors are very likely true because otherwise they could have quickly dismissed them as unfounded once they saw the story was being picked up as widely as it has been.
The big question that remains is how Microsoft plans to monetize Minecraft to make that 2 billion back and how that will affect the game.