Google+, the social network built by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a celebrity acquisition plan.  Whenever public figures sign up for Google+, their identities will be verified.  Celebrity impersonators will be removed.  Below are 24 celebrities that you can follow on Google+ now:

Intervention Insights is a Grand Rapids, Michigan based company that has raised $7.2 million to build and commercialize software that would help doctors identify the proper drugs to create specific types of cancer. Investors in this round include Farmington Hills, Michigan based private equity company Beringea, and Kentucky-based Chrysalis Ventures. The Hopen Life Sciences and Michigan Accelerator Fund I also participated in this round.

Rebecca Black is a 14 year old girl that shot to fame when her mother paid $4,000 to have a single and music video put out as a vanity release through the record label ARK Music Factory. The song was called “Friday” and it hit over 160 million YouTube views after it spread on social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. “Friday” has been highly criticized as “the worst song ever.”

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira had accidentally collected 12,000 screenshots of the New York Times homepage for 8 months between September 2010 and July 2011. His computer took an image every 30 minutes. Using these images, he decided to create a time-lapse video. The video covers the Chilean miners, the Egypt riots, the earthquake in Japan, etc. Above is the video.

Cardagin Networks is a company that has developed a mobile loyalty program and an advertising platform. Cardagin has raised $4.25 million in a series A-1 round of funding. The angel investors that participated in this round are based in New York, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. Cardagin now has $5.25 million in total funding.

Facebook and NBC have made a partnership to broadcast the U.S. GOP presidential debate before the primary next year. The debate will air as part of a special broadcast on NBC’s Meet the Press. The broadcast will be moderated by David Gregory. This will also be streamed on Facebook.

Jarrod McKinney’s first iPhone 4 fell off a bathroom shelf and it cracked. He was shocked to see how easy it was to crack the glass of the iPhone 4. It turns out that same phone survived a 13,500 foot drop. After going skydiving, the iPhone 4 fell out of his pocket and it landed on a building that was about a half-mile away from where his parachute landed.

Publicis Groupe is one of the top four largest advertising and communications companies with over 48,000 employees. Publicis has acquired Big Fuel, a social media agency that handles campaign management for companies such as GM, AOL, T-Mobile, and Fisher-Price.