One Fernando Sosa wanted to cash in on that coordination compromised guy-in-shark-suite stage right of Katy Perry. Sosa, who runs a 3-D printing business, printed a Left Shark figure, which he put up for sale for $24.99, shortly after the Super Bowl. On Wednesday, the Orlando resident heard from Perry's lawyers.

KFC has launched a parody campaign, in which real rich-kid Instagrams are paired with poor-man parodies, with fried chicken. The campaign promotes the Smart Menu, a low-priced KFC meal deal in Romania. The activity was created by MRM Romania. Romanian youngsters are encouraged to check the #richkidsofinstagram poses on Instagram, and recreate some of those pictures in a low-key setting with the hashtag #distractiepebaniputini (which translates from the Romanian as "fun with little money").

Bye-bye, range anxiety. General Motors will begin building a production version of its Chevrolet Bolt battery-electric concept vehicle in 2016, per company sources. That would put GM right up against Tesla, as well as more traditional automakers such as Nissan and BMW. Unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last month, the Chevy Bolt concept was expected to deliver about 200 miles of range per charge - more than double that of most of the electric vehicles currently on the market.

Number-five burger chain Jack in The Box is shifting its menu more upscale with sophisticated burgers. The new Buttery Jack burgers are quarter-pound beef patties with melted garlic-herb butter served on a new bakery-style signature bun. Ads capture real peoples' surprise after blind tests about which company made the burgers. The changes are coming under the direction of Frances Allen, who joined as president of the Jack in the Box brand in October.

Google's "Friends Furever" ad is, by viral standards, a massive free-media success story. The video ad is a compilation of odd-bedfellow animals friends, such as a dog and orangutan, that broke on TV last week, and has drawn more than 4 million page views in three days on YouTube. Nice, but does anyone know that the "Be together. Not the same" message is a dig at Apple's technology paradigm of things that work great together as long as it's Apple things? Evidently not.

Charles Schultz used one. So did John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman and and Dwight Eisenhower. It is displayed in the Smithsonian as one of 101 iconic things made in America. And Robert Rosenberg wants to bring it back: the Esterbrook pen. An IbisWorld report said the art and office supply industry has been heading south for five years because of new technology. Rosenberg hopes to excite younger consumers about Esterbrook products.

Ford's cult-status, high-performance Focus RS has a following in the U.S. even though it has never been sold here. Until now. In an elaborate premiere Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, and broadcast around the world, Ford unveiled a global version of the RS. The all-wheel-drive hatchback, the first RS model to be sold in North America, will arrive next year, possibly as a 2017 model. The performance-oriented, front-wheel-drive Focus ST, which will remain in production.

The 94-year-old electronics chain RadioShack made official on Thursday it is filing for bankruptcy protection in a court in Delaware, after striking a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its stores to Sprint and a hedge fund that is its biggest shareholder. The company has not turned a profit since 2011. "The surprise is that they survived this long," said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.

A January report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that From 2007 to 2012 the value of food sales of farmers face-to-face with consumers dropped by 1% in real dollars. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it reflects "a plateau in consumer demand for local food." So farms are increasingly using middlemen to sell to restaurants, grocery stores and distributors.

This past Sunday - and for the second time in seven years - the Super Bowl was played at a stadium carrying the University of Phoenix name. The for-profit, online University of Phoenix paid $155 million for the privilege. You paid, as well. For several years legislators and consumer advocates have called for rules to limit federal dollars they spend on marketing. But nobody spends it like U of P.