Google says it will launch a select group of business profiles for its new social network sometime next week. Until 9pm ET Friday, you can still apply for the closed, coveted Google+ business profiles pilot run. (The original form "filled up," as Google+ project developer Christian Oestlien explained.)

A handful of brand pages have already been created on Google+, but the search giant has been diligently deleting them after it announced that companies should hold off on creating profiles until Google+ was ready to release designated business profiles.


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