MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Stephens recalls with precision the night he signed the deal that would put his sassy startup, Geek Squad, under the massive corporate umbrella of Best Buy. Parked in an alley ...

BROOKS, Ky.--At Geek Squad City, it's no accident that everywhere you look are well-groomed young people in dark pants, white shirts, and narrow black ties. Since its founding by Robert Stephens in ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

Impoverished computer geeks are becoming hot commodities in Japan these days, thanks to one blockbusting book that originated on a weblog. Until two years ago, it was one thing to be Bill Gates, who ...

The media is full of geek stereotypes, everywhere from Big Bang Theory to episodes of CSI and NCIS. These images of geeks as antisocial, immature dorks may seem harmless — but a new study suggests ...

In the beginning, computers were mystical machines created to meet the special needs of government, researchers and large corporations. These were "mainframe" computers. Huge and expensive, only the ...

“Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho” is more than the stories of the two 19 year-old boys it follows. It is a compelling profile of the changing structure of American society.

The typical image of a computer geek is that of a socially clueless loner. Not only single, but can’t even get a date. Data, however, paints a somewhat different picture — at least when it comes to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The stereotype of computer scientists as geeks who memorize Star Trek lines and never leave the ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The computer repair shop chain known as Raleigh Geeks shut down earlier this year leaving many customers without their computers. But now the North Carolina Attorney General's office ...