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

AT&T Wants to Be Like Facebook — But Can It?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

AT&T is trying to beat the cloud czars and entertainment giants at their own game, but T stock lacks some key assets needed to do so.

Trump Wakes the Gold and Bitcoin Bugs

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

If you trust gold, you must trust your vault owner to move around with it. If you trust bitcoin, you must trust the exchange you trade with. Both carry risk

Canopy Growth Stock Needs Outside Help to Keep Growing

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Acreage is active in every state that lets it in, but marijuana remains a schedule drug under U.S. law. Canopy shareholders are betting that changes soon.

Has Amazon Leached All It Can From the Cloud?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Companies, like AMZN, that took the risk of cloud have created trillions of dollars of new market cap, but the cloud decade is now ending.

Uber Stock: Show Us the (Lost) Money

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Uber stock is expected to lose $2.39 per share for the current quarter. Unless it can seriously surprise, expect more pain.

After the Apple Settlement, Qualcomm’s Monopoly Is Still a Monopoly

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

QCOM stock bulls hope the Trump Administration will reverse a ruling calling Qualcomm a monopolist -- even though Qualcomm is a monopolist.

Crude Oil Prices Could Rally, But the Long-Term Outlook Is Bleak

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Russia's supply problems, combined with global instability, could mean a hike in crude oil prices, but long-term the outlook is bad.

The China Trade War Is Unhealthy

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The trade war is based on a lie, that trade deficits matter, and on fear that trade is war by other means

Tilray Stock Keeps Its Eyes on the Future

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Tilray sees marijuana evolving into a branded market of edibles, oils, medicines and flavorings, as shortages become gluts. Watch TLRY stock.

The Auto Industry Is Changing, But Ford Stock Is Already on the Right Road

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Reading the headlines it's hard to believe Ford stock beat earnings estimates handily last quarter, but they're ready for the change in auto.

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