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

ChargePoint Is the Electric Gas Station Opportunity

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

ChargePoint is the early leader in electric vehicle charging. The company is being taken public by a SPAC via SBE stock.

Does a Billion in SPAC Cash Make Fisker Motors Stock Any Less Speculative?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Founder Henrik Fisker has been working toward building his electric SUV since 2007, and FSK stock now has the financing and manufacturing connections to make the attempt.

StartEngine Is a Good Place to Invest in Cleantech

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Many great cleantech ideas need funding, but only some of them will succeed. StartEngine is a way that lets you spread your bets on startups.

7 5G Stocks to Buy for the Future of the Machine Internet

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The 2020s will see machine data become intelligence, intelligence become automation, and automation spread from factories to cities and your wrist.

Lordstown Motors: Can GM’s Old Plant Beat It?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Lordstown Motors has a plan to take on Tesla in electric truck fleet sales. Like other start-ups it is scooping up capital that in previous years might have gone to General Motors.

Cognizant Looks For Opportunties in the Machine Internet

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Cognizant is seeking growth sectors to replace its old data center work, in the cloud and in cloud applications.

By Buying Xilinx, AMD Doubles Down on Taiwan

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

AMD stock keeps beating Intel, but Intel remains much bigger. The large cloud companies don't need the fastest chips, just a lot of them.

Virgin Galactic Has a Lot to Prove — Right Now Its Vision Seems Far Off

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Richard Branson has been pushing toward space tourism for nearly two decades, but the next few months are critical in making that reality.

Thermo Fisher is More Than a Big Covid Winner

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Covid-19 brought $2 billion in revenue to Thermo Fisher during the third quarter, and the company will put it to work for the next decade of biotech drug discovery.

Rockwell Automation Is Building the Machine Internet

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

If ROK stock fails to meet the mark for its next quarter earnings, investors may find it a good way to buy into the machine internet.

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