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

Here’s Why Moderna Stock Could Be the Stock of the Decade

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Moderna was able to develop what proved to ve a successful COVID-19 vaccine over a weekend, thanks to Messenger RNA technology it had been working on for a decade.

How Tim Cook Made Apple Stock the Investment of the Decade

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Whether Apple builds a car matters less than that when it does, the move will be seen as evolutionary, not revolutionary.

Why Microsoft Has a Limited Future As a Growth Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The cost of doing business is growing, making it more likely that Microsoft stock will soon become an income stock once again.

Alphabet’s Relative Failure Is Obscured by the Cloud’s Success

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Alphabet is being run to fit the desires of Wall Street, and has $120 billion in cash. Here is why that is a bad thing for Google stock.

Palantir Technologies Looks to be Overvalued Now

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Palantir is being valued as a cloud application stock, but it's really a government contractor subject to growth limits.

9 Stocks To Buy For Opportunities In The Energy Revolution

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The oil patch is losing control of the market to companies whose machines harvest energy from the Sun and wind. But there are still opportunities.

BP: Still British, Still Petroleum, Despite Its Attempt At Reinvention

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

BP stock is touted for its renewable future, but you still should buy or sell it based on its oil and gas operations, which look better going into 2021.?

Post-Bankruptcy, Whiting Petroleum Stock Looks No Better Than Before

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The long-term future of Whiting Petroleum is tied to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a project the incoming Biden Administration might kill.

High-Valuation SolarEdge Stock Shines Light on Alt-Energy’s Fine Points

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

SEDG stock is up 220% in 2020 because investors like that its inverters work with any solar panel. But will they still love SolarEdge next year?

Downturn in PBF Energy Stock Could Be an Opportunity

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Blackrock recently bought 14% of PBF stock, despite a terrible short-term outlook for the sector. It's speculating on 2021 and you can, too.

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