Samsung has today announced that its cross-platform ChatON messaging service now boasts over 100 million users across Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Windows Phone. It’s taken just two years for the service to become more popular than BBM, once one of the biggest names in instant messaging, and it continues to grow at an impressive rate.

AOL has officially released a news app on Google Play. Similar to many other news reader applications, ‘AOL: News’ features a scrollable menu bar, which automatically breaks news down into suitable categories, which can then be scrolled through at your leisure.

The popular notification customization tool, Light Flow, has received a pretty sizeable update which brings a completely re-designed user interface based on Google’s traditional “cards” UI, new widget styles, and compatibility support for Android 4.4 KitKat, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Note III.

Google is already serving you Gmail ads on your desktop, and soon you’ll see them on your mobile, too. Although they aren’t active just yet, there is evidence for them in the latest Gmail for Android release, which was made available to download via Google Play last week.

Google has officially announced that starting from October 7 it will be offering a refund for all customers who have purchased a deal through Google Offers, but have forgotten to redeem or use the offer in a timely manner.