The manufacture of automotive parts for the Tesla brand of billionaire Elon Musk entrusted to the American company STMicroelectronics, located in Bouskoura in the Casablanca region, propels Morocco into the electric vehicle market. It is fast becoming the first African country to enter this market. STMicroelectronics is about to inaugurate …
Read More »Facebook launches 2021 MENA Community Accelerator program
The application phase for the Facebook Mena Community Accelerator program, 2021 edition, is already launched. The race was open for the leaders of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carrying community projects and wishing to translate them into action. Through this eight-month program, broken down into three phases, Facebook …
Read More »Facebook to spend over $ 1 billion on content creation
The boss of Facebook and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, has indicated that to better compete with other platforms like TikTok or YouTube, Facebook plans to spend more than a billion dollars in programs intended to compensate the creators of content disseminated on its social networks by the end of 2022. In …
Read More »Morocco and Israel sign cybersecurity cooperation agreement
The agreement signed in Rabat last week covers operational cooperation, joint R&D projects and information and knowledge sharing, according to Israel National Cyber Directorate. This is the first cyber defense agreement between the two countries since relations began last year. The agreement was signed in Rabat in the presence of …
Read More »Global Cybersecurity Index: Morocco 50th in the world
The fourth edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index ranked Morocco 50th worldwide out of 194 countries. Established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the report suggests that the Kingdom notably improve its governance and coordination mechanisms. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) this week released the fourth edition of the Global …
Read More »Facebook launches 2021 MENA Community Accelerator program
The application phase for the Facebook Mena Community Accelerator program, 2021 edition, is officially launched. The race is thus open for the leaders of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carrying community projects and wishing to translate them into action. Through this eight-month program, broken down into three phases, …
Read More »84% of Moroccans use the WhatsApp application
The WhatsApp messaging system is used by 84% of Moroccans in 2021 and 79% of them use it on a daily basis, reveals the Sunergia Group’s social media barometer. “In urban areas, this rate even rises to more than 90%”, indicates the group in its mapping of social networks in …
Read More »Facebook to launch paid live streaming in Morocco
In Morocco, Facebook subscribers will soon be able to use the paid streaming service of the social network, like Internet users from Egypt and South Africa, soon added to the list of 24 countries that have been using this service since August 2020. This service allows content creators to charge …
Read More »Digital 2021: Morocco more and more connected
The new Digital 2021 report series, released in partnership with We Are Social and Hootsuite, shows that technology, as a whole, has become an even more essential part of people’s lives over the past year: social media, e-commerce, streaming content and video games all showing significant growth in the past …
Read More »Israeli drones for the Moroccan army
Israel could deliver a large order of latest generation drones to Morocco. These are the latest generation Bluebird Aero Systems drones ordered from Israel aerospace industries (IAI) thanks to a major agreement with the Kingdom. According to Israel Defense, this order could be delivered to Morocco the day after the …
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