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

Sprout Social Stock Is a Little Plant With a Too-Big Valuation

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Sprout Social is just a little plant in a hot social media industry. While the potential is there, the valuation on Sprout stock is too high.

Workday Becomes Prosaic

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Workday fell after first quarter earnings disappointed analysts, but those numbers weren't bad and the company is still mining its niche in the cloud.

eBay Needs a Better Reputation and Higher Annual Sales

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Thanks to some hedge funds, eBay has sold its classifieds business and is focusing on payments. But eBay stock needs more to thrive.

7 Stocks for Beginners

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Your first investment will teach important lessons about the value of time, and the need to pay attention.

MongoDB: Great Software, Bad Business

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

MongoDB is a database built for the cloud, based on documents rather than structure. But its costs continue to grow as fast as its revenue.

Cloudera and the Problem With Open Source

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Cloudera supports Hadoop, an important system for managing big data developed in the last decade as open source. It's not a great business.

NYCE Seeks Foothold in a Post-Coronavirus Real Estate Market

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

NYCE seeks to bridge the wealth gap by creating 100,000 millionaires of color by 2030. But is its business worth investing in?

Salesforce and the Cloud Database Revolution

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Salesforce has stayed on top of the technology trends over the last 20 years while Oracle has mainly resisted them.

The Only Way to Make IBM Stock Appealing Again Is a Break Up

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Investors have no use for IBM's mainframe and services businesses, but might like its cloud and software operations if they were broken-off from it.

Contemporary Art Is the Real Bitcoin

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

There are many ways to invest in fine art. If you have money and time you can make money at it, even during the pandemic.

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