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

Best ETFs for 2020: The Global X Cloud Computing Fund Makes a Comeback

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

CLOU's holdings will always offer some sort of value in a post pandemic world, which makes it one fo the best ETFs to buy.

Keep Your Eyes on the Processors in the Wake of the Wirecard Scandal

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Wirecard apparently booked almost $2 billion in revenue from companies who now say it never did business with it.

Tesla Stock Faces Growing Threats From Chinese Rivals

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Tesla is dominant against U.S. automakers, but growing competition from Chinese electric vehicles threatens Tesla stock.

Marathon Oil Stock: Trade Oil’s Sunset Years

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Marathon stock spiked by over 50% in early June, but has given back most of those gains.

Big Tech Will Cause the Next Market Crash

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Big tech companies prefer policies that bring them more trained minds to those that give their market cap a boost. This could lead the next market crash.

Don’t Let Luckin Coffee Stock Turn You Off Chinese Companies

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Get out from LK stock while you can, but don't let Luckin Coffee convince you all other Chinese stocks are frauds. Alibaba certainly isn't.

Your 401(k) Money Might Be Going Into Private Equity (and you won’t know)

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Fiduciaries are being told they can now put some of their 401(k) plan money into private equity deals, which they may not understand any better than the employees they serve.

The Smart Money Is Ignoring the Bad News for T-Mobile’s Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Some smart money is nabbing TMUS stock because of the monopoly profits coming to T-Mobile after its acquisition of Sprint.

Should You Bet on MGM Resorts or MGM Growth?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

MGM has begun re-opening its resorts, with social distancing and safety shields, but how many gamblers are coming in remains an open question.

Papa John’s Stock Can Be More Than Just a Pandemic Winner

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Shaquille O'Neal is betting that Rob Lynch, a veteran fast food man who became CEO last year, can take PZZA stock into orbit.

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