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

Constellation’s Backing Will Keep CGC Stock Propped up in the Long Term

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Constellation Brands recently signaled its patience with Canopy by buying a majority stake in BioSteel, which makes energy drink powders for athletes.

Is Advanced Micro Devices Stock as Good as It Gets?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Dr. Lisa Su has scored a 10-bagger with investors, whose investments are up over 10-fold just since 2016, but keeping producting growing from Taiwan, her birthplace, is now key to AMD's success.

5G Is Changing Qualcomm Stock’s Future

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Qualcomm is ending the mobile phone era and is preparing to make wireless networks ubiquitous. Long-term investors should buy QCOM stock.

Will Federal Legalization Occur in Time to Save Aurora Cannabis Stock?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

ACB stock needs enough cash to reach 2021, when the market for recreational marijuana may open wider in the U.S.

10 Cloud Stocks to Invest in the Future

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

These cloud stocks are the best way to play the coming age of the universal cloud. Soon every enterprise will have its own cloud platform.

Alphabet Stock Made Lemonade With Google Fiber’s Lemons

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Google's cloud service has created a re-seller that beats AT&T at its own wireless game. Alphabet stock's valuation is four times that of T.

Best ETFs for 2019: Financial Sector Spider Reflects Bank Stock Struggles

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

XLF won't win the 2019 InvestorPlace ETF contest, but it's matching the market. That's good given deflation and falling interest rates.

Has Shopify Stock Gone Too Far?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Shopify bulls should remember this important truth. You don't have a profit until you sell a stock and the cash is in your hand.

AT&T Stock Is Doomed to Become the Next GE

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Buying content rather than cloud may turn be as bad a decision for AT&T stock as GE's decision to buy into power

First Solar Stock Drops as Solar Power Grows

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

FSLR is a well-run company, but First Solar stock has been a very poor investment, even while its product proves its value.

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