Usama Qasem's blog - Economy, Business, Technology & More

General Manager | Writer | Pioneer | Public Speaker | Financial Literacy & Inclusion Champion | Economic Development Expert

The New Reality of Retail (Machine Learning & AI)

The retail industry is going through an exciting yet challenging phase. Competition is fierce and consumers have more options to choose from. This has caused the industry to grow at a rapid rate and it is expected to hit the $27 trillion mark by 2020.Some experts agree that machine learning and artificial intelligence will play […]

Banking Made Perfect. How is AI changing the game?

Emerging technologies are making banking safer, faster, and more reliable. The implications of AI and machine learning are vast, however, most banks are still working to adopt these changing technologies.According to a survey conducted by the Narrative Science and the National Business Research Institute, about 32 percent of executives using AI technologies like recommendation engines, […]

The Man Who Changed Us, Edward Louis Bernays

All of us enjoy some kind of image, positive or negative. Everyone from entrepreneur to businesses to celebs needs to be aware of our public image. I’ll talk about the history of PR and how it has changed over the years, starting from the very beginning. If you know about PR then you might have […]

Downsizing or Rightsizing, What Is the Real Cost?

“In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your workforce while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.” James Surowiecki Surowiecki appears to be harsh but he isn’t entirely wrong. This is how […]

Dude, Where’s My Self-Driving Car?

Self driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles, are no more a dream. What was just a concept is now a reality. Car makers and…

AI, Where and When Did it Start? A Look Back.

There are many courses to learn about AI but very few people talk about the history of artificial intelligence. AI is an elusive subject…

Business Acquisition 101n

Mergers and acquisitions is a term that describes the consolidation of assets or companies through different financial transactions,…

Hi Doc! A Machine Just Took Your Job.

A few days ago I came across an article titled Doctors, beware: A ‘robot doctor’ just matched humans’ diagnostic performance. It talked…

The Future of Our Food

Farming and agriculture is one of the most important and oldest professions out there. How we farm and grow crops has changed drastically…

The Cure to An Ailing Economy

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,…

Epidemics, Economics, and the Cost of Survival

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst…

The Power of State-Owned Enterprise

“…failure comes from resisting that which works best…in favour of some systematic method or principle claiming universal validity…” -…