Swedish Automobile CEO Victor Muller said Saab would have to go back to the drawing board after General Motors rejected its proposed rescue plan where it would be sold to Chinese investors Pang Da and Youngman Lotus.

Danica Patrick has made it official; she will make her Nascar Sprint Cup Series debut in the 2012 season-opening 54th annual Daytona 500 with the support of lead sponsor GoDaddy.com.

Best Buy has purchased one 30-second spot, marking the second time in its 45-year history that it will advertise during the Super Bowl. Best Buy made its Super Bowl debut during the 2011 game. Crispin, Porter + Bogusky will again do the creative.

The Limited has launched Eloquii, a brand designed and marketed exclusively to plus-size women. Kate Shevack, a Limited consultant who worked on the Eloquii launch, said Limited CEO Linda Heasley encountered questions at a fashion event from bloggers frustrated that the only clothing that seemed to be available to them were cheaply made stretchy black pieces and dowdy tops.

Game publisher Activision Blizzard launches "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" Monday night at midnight, and it is expected to have the top-selling game of the year. Last year's "Call of Duty: Black Ops" replaced 2009's "Modern Warfare 2" as the best-selling game of all time, topping 25 million sold, or more than $1.5 billion.

Minnesota-based Best Buy will buy Boston-based mindSHIFT Technologies Inc. for $167 million. With some 500 employees and several offices around the country, mindSHIFT provides cloud services and data center services to small and mid-sized businesses. Best Buy said the transaction will help accelerate Best Buy's growth in the small and mid-sized business IT services category.

NFL partner Visa in September unveiled "You and 10 Super Bowl Sweepstakes," targeting Super Bowl XLVI. Now, Visa has officially launched the supporting ad campaign, a fictional story of how one man won 11 tickets to the Big Game and how he and his 10 friends and relatives made it to Indianapolis.

Since its debut in November 2003, NFL Network has been a majority-owned and -operated division of the NFL. But with the 2011 season of "Thursday Night Football" coming on Nov. 10, the channel could become a major force in itself.

Ford Motor Co. is upgrading - not abandoning - the Ford Flex for the 2013 model year. Introduced in 2008 to fill the gap where Ford used to have a minivan, Flex has failed to excite buyers. Sales of about 23,000 through October are down almost 22%, and Ford sold fewer than 35,000 in 2010, down almost 12% from the previous year, according to Autodata Corp.

Pantyhose sales have been dropping for 15 years, thanks to leg tanner, open-toed shoes, and more casual dress codes. Are things turning around? Sales have stabilized, and now hosiery giant L'eggs, a division of Hanesbrands, has launched its first TV ad in nearly 15 years.