Category: Business

CHRISTOPHER REYES BUSINESS EDITOR @cdrey With their undergraduate careers coming to an end, many graduating business students are considering their options for the future. Graduate school is one option that students have to advance their career opportunities and make themselves more attractive job candidates. The decision to attend graduate school […]

CHRISTOPHER REYES BUSINESS EDITOR @cdrey Stocks fell again last week, the third week in row they have done so. The major indices each fell significantly over the course of the week. The Nasdaq took the biggest hit, falling over 4 percent. The S&P 500 fell around 3 percent, placing it […]

DYLAN BROCKMEYER ASST. BUSINESS EDITOR @dbrock08 Seven years ago, University of San Diego alumni Kyle Miholich started his own frozen yogurt business. Fiji yogurt now has three successful chains in the San Diego area. The one thing Fiji Yogurt does not have is a partnership with USD’s Campus Cash program. […]

RACHEL TRUONG CONTRIBUTOR Eight weeks ago, Paul Budnitz launched a social network called Ello, meant to serve as an “anti-Facebook.” The site’s mission has been stated to be a counter to the “advertising platform” that Budnitz believes Facebook has become. “Users are products at Facebook,” Budnitz said. “They want to […]

CHRISTOPHER REYES BUSINESS EDITOR @cdrey For the second week in a row, stocks ended at a loss as investors continued to act with caution due to geopolitical unrest and economic uncertainty. Several economic indicators scared investors early in the week. Consumer confidence was in its biggest decline since October, according […]

Fiji Frozen Yogurt DYLAN BROCKMEYER ASST. BUSINESS EDITOR @dbrock08 A 2007 USD graduate with a bachelor’s in business administration and a minor in Spanish, Kyle Miholich, owner of the Fiji Yogurt chain, has opened three successful stores in the San Diego area. Miholich has been dedicated to the freshest yogurt […]

Ryan Bros Coffee DYLAN BROCKMEYER ASST. BUSINESS EDITOR @dbrock08 Ryan Bros. Coffee, owned and operated by brothers Harry, Carmine and Tom Ryan, first began serving coffee at University of San Diego volleyball and basketball games in 1994 and has been serving on campus ever since. The company that began began […]

CHRISTOPHER REYES BUSINESS EDITOR @cdrey Acorns is one of the smartest, most college student-relevant smartphone apps ever released. The app automatically invests spare change into a well-managed and diversified portfolio. For example, when a user makes a $3.75 purchase using a credit or debit card, Acorns rounds up to the […]

BRETT CASEY CONTRIBUTOR Starbucks and other chain coffee shops are being sued by a California nonprofit known as Council for Education and Research on Toxins, or CERT. The group claims the presence of the carcinogen acrylamide could link consuming coffee from these chain shops to developing cancer. The lawsuit would […]