Best Buy's signature community outreach program is looking for partners to host free two-day tech camps for youth.
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The following is a statement from Best Buy regarding Geek Squad’s role in the criminal child pornography case of the United States of America vs. Mark Albert Rettenmaier:
“Best Buy and Geek Squad have no relationship with the FBI. From time to time, our repair agents discover material that may be child pornography, and we have a legal and moral obligation to turn that material over to law enforcement. We are proud of our policy and share it with our customers before we begin any repair.
Geek Squad Agents offer advice for making sure you’re using your technology to its fullest in the new year.
The excitement of unwrapping the perfect tech gift can quickly turn to frustration if you can’t get it to work the way you want. These Geek Squad Agents have some advice.
- Best Buy issues call-for-entries to open nine new Teen Tech Centers in 2017, expanding national network to 20 locations in challenged urban communities
- Year-round training will reach thousands more underserved teens, helping them leverage technology for a wide variety of future career paths
- Accelerated outreach effort addresses projections that 77 percent of all jobs will require tech skills in coming decade
Minneapolis, Dec. 13, 2016 – More of the nation’s underserved teens will have access to free technology tools and training as Best Buy today announces plans to add nine new Best Buy Teen Tech Centers to its year-round support network in 2017.
After 18 months of working and waiting, Agent Cayle Conkey received his official Geek Squad badge. It's a milestone number: 100,000.
Super Bowl MVP, self-professed geek and current ESPN Magazine cover model Von Miller dusted off his Deputy Agent uniform and returned to assist Agent Jay Lisby on some client house calls yesterday in Los Angeles.
Geek Squad celebrates geekness every day, with a dedicated tech-support army of Agents 20,000 strong. We asked some of them to tell us what that means.
A Geek Squad Academy camp sparked a passion for technology in Victoria Bass that drove her to become an Agent. Now, she's sharing that passion with youth.
Geek Squad Agent Richard Hart reflects on the time he spent with his first Geekmobile. They were on the road together for six years and nearly 95,000 miles.
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller became an honorary Geek Squad Agent, rode in the new Geekmobile and helped with a house call.
By day, Geek Squad Agent Chuck Weeden pins down technology problems for Best Buy customers at the Auburn Hills store in suburban Detroit.
But after work, Weeden, a.k.a. “Big Money,” tackles opponents as a semipro wrestler with the Michigan Championship Wrestling Association (MCWA).
Weeden’s signature move? The “Cash Out,” fittingly enough.
“I scoop up my opponent and as I slam him down I wrap my arm around his neck, pretty much landing on his neck as I come down,” he said.