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

SunPower Is Turning Back to Homeowners

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

SunPower is buying Blue Raven, hoping the residential market will deliver profits for SPWR stock now that solar energy is the cheap power.

Moderna Stock Looks Fully Valued Here, But It Has a Great Future

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Moderna has a host of vaccines in its pipeline, including against cancer and HIV. It's not a one-trick pony.

In a Cyber War, It May Help to Own CrowdStrike Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Analysts want you to buy the dip on Crowdstrike, a cloud-based endpoint security company that has CRWD stock selling at 36x revenue.

SmileDirectClub Stock Has a Case, But Align Technology Is the Better Investment

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

SmileDirect is losing money while its larger competitor Align Technology is making money

Amazon Stock Just Needs a Little Christmas to Brighten Investor Faces

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Amazon is no longer the scrappy underdog, but the hulking giant of American business. The negative press coverage has halted AMZN stock's rise, even while the business keeps growing.

How Bad Will the Outage and Accusations Be for Facebook?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

FB stock should be a bargain, but Facebook's strategy of defying regulators may just make its many problems that much worse.

The Bed, Bath & Beyond Bubble has Burst After an Earnings Disappointment

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The multi-year turnaround plan of company CEO Mark Tritton remains largely on track, even if meme players have left BBBY stock.

Toyota Stock Is Going to Get Weaker as It Bucks the Full EV Trend

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Toyota today is the most valuable car company in the world, and the stock sports a nice dividend. But its resistance to the electric revolution is dimming its future prospects

Ford Stock: The Electric Boom Could Easily Go Bust

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Ford is betting on big investments in Kentucky and Tennessee to compete with Tesla in electric cars and trucks, but F stock is still a risk.

GE Stock Is a Buy Here as Culp’s Strategy Starts Paying Off

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Culp has turned GE away from power and toward health care, with strategic acquisitions that should pay off over time.

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