Slideshow: Apple's Giant iPad, iOS Beat Android And More From The Final Week Of December

It may be the end of the year, but that didn't stop Apple AAPL from ruling headlines with rumors, iOS success stories and a major China Mobile CHL announcement. In addition to Apple, Amazon AMZN made headlines after announcing record sales during the holiday shopping season. Answers.com raised a few hundred million dollars and acquired ForeSee. T-Mobile TMUS decided to give away free Facebook FB access to GoSmart users. And Best Buy BBY attempted to overcome the dilemma of being America's largest showroom for electronic devices. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.