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Tech4Africa, a mobile, web and emerging technology conference that debuted last year is set to hold its second conference from 27 to 28 October 2011 at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The conference aims to bring international experience and perspective to the African continent, while at the same time showcasing what Africans are doing with mobile, web, digital media and other emerging technologies. “2010 saw the launch of Tech4Africa and we were met with overwhelming support from both the tech and business communities and our foundation partners, First National Bank and Internet Solutions,” saidGareth Knight, MD of Tech4Africa....

TechCrunch’s Mike Arringtonjust announcedthat his technology blog will be rolling out significant enhancements to the site next week including a new design, new logo and new content from its sister sitesCrunchGear,MobileCrunchandTechCrunch IT, which will be shutting down. All of those sites will be under the TechCrunch domain and the old URLs will redirect. The regional websites such asTechCrunch EU,TechCrunch FranceandTechCrunch Japanwill still be separate sites on the TechCrunch.com domain. Arrington writes that plans for the redesign began last summer before being bought by AOL....

We’ve seen this story unfolding for quite a few weeks, and some could even argue that the ball started rolling in September of 2010 whenAol acquired TechCrunch. Long-time technology blogger Michael Arrington is resigning as the Editor of TechCrunch in order to pursue a full-time career in venture capital. The reported $20 million fund, according toThe Wall Street Journal, is backed by Aol itself as well as “several venture-capital firms.” Arrington gave a forewarning back inApril of this year, stating that “in a few months, there’s a very good chance that I’ll be a direct or indirect investor in a lot of the new startups in Silicon Valley....

Techmemefounder Gabe Rivera andMediagazerfounder Megan McCarthyannouncedtoday, onTwitter, that they both news aggregation sites will be including Tweets as headlines going forward. In July of last year,we speculatedthat the Techmeme team was considering expanding from solely aggregating news articles to also including Twitter’s 140 character messages. Ina recent post, McCarthy writes, that tweets will appear as headlines when people break news on Twitter and tweets that are commentary on stories will show up as part of the discussion section for that story, along with links to related blog posts and coverage from other news outlets....