Weekly Highlights: iPad Sales Decline, BlackBerry Pays $550 For iPhones And More

The final week of November is often one of the slowest of the year, but there were a few noteworthy stories ahead of Thanksgiving.

For starters, BlackBerry Ltd BBRY offered big money for iPhone trade-ins.

Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN was rumored to be close to another M&A deal -- this time with a little-known fashion retailer.

Apple Inc. AAPL endured a full year of declining tablet sales.

Yahoo! Inc. YHOO and Microsoft Corporation MSFT are reportedly interested in becoming the default search engine in Safari.

And last but not least, Apple is expected to sell between 60 and 70 million iPhones during the December quarter. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.