Apple, which ended 2011 with almost $100 billion in cash, has announced plans to spend almost half of that money.

Shareholders will receive a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share during the fourth quarter of its 2012 financial year - and the company also plans to buy back around $10 billion of shares in the 2013 financial year, which begins on 30th September 2012.

Good Technology, which provides secure business services for a range of mobile devices, has announced that Sainsbury’s is adopting the Good for Enterprise solution.

This will enable the retailer to provide its 150,000 UK employees with secure mobile access to corporate data.

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile financial services were making the headlines yet again last week. Not once. Not twice. No, we noticed at least three separate (and all pretty big) stories to talk about.

First came Nokia’s planned withdrawal from its mobile money service, which will leave around a million people in India looking for a new mobile wallet.

Mark Bridge writes:

Excuse me a moment while I climb onto my soapbox.

Right. Ooh, it’s busy up here.

For a number of years, various companies have worked on computer-powered dictation and transcription services. Now Apple has entered this space.

Mark Bridge writes:

Back in the 1960s, Hertz was the number one hire car company in the USA. Avis was trailing a long way behind. Looking for a new advertising campaign, CEO Robert Townsend spoke to Bill Bernbach - the ‘B’ in ad agency DDB - and a few months later “We try harder” became the Avis tagline.

“Avis is only No.2 in rent a cars” the headlines admitted. “We try harder. When you’re not the biggest, you have to.”

It’s a message I was reminded of when I met Andreas Bernström at Mobile World Congress last month. Andreas is CEO of Rebtel, the world’s second-largest mobile Voice-over-IP company. With Skype seen as market leader for VoIP services, I asked Andreas whether Rebtel also needed to try harder.