Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn

InvestorPlace Contributor

Expertise: Technology, Biotech, Renewable energy

Education: M.S,J. Northwestern (Medill School) 1978; B.A. Rice University, History and Political Science 1977

Awards & Accomplishments: Tech reporter since 1982, Freelance since 1983, on Internet since 1985. Created first online coverage of Internet with a magazine, Interactive Age, 1994 Co-wrote BBS Systems for Business in 1991, Wrote Guide to Field Computing in 1992 Wrote technology history now called "Living with Moore's Law" in 2001, 2010, 2021 Author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction

About Dana:
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial journalist since 1978, a technology journalist since 1982, and an Internet journalist since 1985. He writes a Substack newsletter, Facing the Future, which covers technology, markets, and politics.

He has written a half-dozen technology books, several novels available at the Amazon Kindle store, and covered beats ranging from education to e-commerce, and from open source to renewable energy. He lives in Atlanta.

Recent Articles

TSLA Stock Has the Goods for the Long Term, Even If It Falters a Bit

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Tesla is the first company to ride the Machine Internet to a $1 trillion valuation. Computers let it capture all the value chain from its products, a lot like Apple with the iPhone

Square Is Leading the Fintech Revolution

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

SQ stock is no longer just a threat to payment processing stocks. It is also competing with banks and brokerages through its Cash app.

With Palantir Technologies, Leave Politics Aside and Focus On the Foundry

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Palantir Technologies' Foundry is meant to automate the big decisions made by CEOs. If it can succeed in the commercial market it covets, PLTR stock is undervalued.

GameStop’s New Management Gets the Gift of Time

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The investors who joined the GME stock frenzy in January are showing extraordinary patience with GameStop's new management.

Despite Nio’s ‘Tesla of China’ Moniker, the Country Offers Better EV Plays

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nio does not produce any of China's best-selling electric cars. The high end of that market is still held by Tesla, followed by BYD Motors, part-owned by Warren Buffett.

Pinterest Stock Is Suffering After a Busted Deal, But the M&A Talk Is Real

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Pinterest could still attract interest from companies like Alibaba, Facebook and Twitter, who could fund its ongoing international expansion.

Walmart Stock Trades at a Discount, Espcially Given Its Latest Moves

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Walmart is now competing directly with Amazon for third party merchants, offering to help them finance, sell and deliver their goods through its own infrastructure

Promising Ideas Alone Won’t Take Ideanomics Stock on a Second Trip Higher

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

If even one of the companies Ideanomics has bought this year takes off, IDEX stock could get very interesting.

Zillow Group Stock May Have Rebounded, But It Won’t Go Up Forever

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Zillow was a tech company, but is now just a house flipper, the kind of speculator you see all the time on Discovery's HGTV.

For Lucid Motors To Win Mass Market, It All Comes Down to the Batteries

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Lucid Motors is getting great reviews for its Air sedan, but it can't fill its orders unless it can get a steady and rising supply of batteries, which in turn depend on expensive lithium. LCID stock fortunes are tied to the metal.

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