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

Delta Air Lines Fills Middle Seats, Not Investors’ Pockets

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Airline travel is still down by one-quarter from pre-pandemic levels, and Delta is expected to report a loss for the March quarter.

AirBnB: The New King of Travel?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

AirBnB stock is now selling for 34 times last year's revenue, despite having no profits. Its rivals are on to the business model, and growth may slow.

TripAdvisor Is Betting on Its New Program to Get to the New Normal

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

TripAdvisor Plus needs both hotels and travelers to sign up for a trade of commissions for discounts and perks, if TripAdvisor stock is to justify its current valuation.

Why I Still Don’t Own Alphabet

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

GOOG stock is back at record levels as investors conclude that cloud infrastructure is one of the keys to the global economy.

Salesforce Is Now a Long-Term Play

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Cloud application company Salesforce has matured into a reliable company. No longer a short-play, consider CRM stock for the long-term.

8 Major Players in the SPAC Game to Watch

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

With SPACs, you can get in on the ground floor of good -- or bad -- ideas, or you can just bet on the guys holding the checkbook.

Has Oprah Winfrey’s Sale Made Discovery Stock a Bargain?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Discovery's B shares, with 10 times the voting power of its A shares, shot up after the stock fell, sparking speculation controlling shareholder John Malone may be ready to make a deal.

Nano Dimension Is Making 3D Printing Great Again

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nano Dimension has a new product for printing circuit boards, a veteran CEO and cash for a big acquisition. All that should help NNDM stock.

Microsoft Avoided the Tech Wreck and Could Best Apple’s Market Cap Soon

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Microsoft continues to go from strength to strength, designing its own chips, gaining cloud market share, dominating gaming, growing 14% at scale.

Ideonomics Is a Lot of Things, but It Is Not an Investment

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Ideonomics has tried to be many things over the years. This year it's claiming to be in the electric vehicle market.

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