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

Cloud Czars: Is It Still Good to Be the King?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Over the last six months, investors have begun preferring companies that rent cloud capacity to the owners of the clouds themselves.

Groupon Stock Investors Mull Results: Disaster or Just Disappointment?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Groupon revenue has declined for 12 straight quarters. GRPN stock is stuck waiting for reinvention of the company to achieve top-line growth.

Nio Stock Logic Plays On China Car Buying Instead of Unaffordable Apartments

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nio stock is taking off, but could crash to Earth with China's property bubble. Could be time to tap the brakes on NIO stock.

GE Stock Isn’t Having the Great Recovery You Think It Is

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

New GE Larry Culp is doing all he can to rescue the company but it will all be for nought if he can't end the losses at GE Power

Promise of Low Nicotine Fires Up 22nd Century Stock As Trading Scrutinized

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

22nd Century is founded on a good idea, and is moving forward with it, but XXII stock may have been subject to manipulation.

Don’t Regret Buying Nvidia Stock Twice

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nvidia's main markets of cloud data centers and gaming fans have been waiting anxiously for today's lower chip prices

Buffett Goes Bigger on Banks, Pumps Brakes on Apple Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Headlines say Buffett sold out of Apple. He didn't. But it helped Berkshire Hathaway to a 21% loss in its stock portfolio during the fourth quarter.

This Are the Kind of Oil Stocks You Should Watch Right Now

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Shares in Texas shale producers are rising while oil stocks expect to benefit from arbitraging prices on different types of crude.

Can Google and IBM Catch Up in the Cloud?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The future of IBM stock depends on the cloud; meanwhile, Google is putting significant effort into gaining an upper hand here too.

After GoPro’s Surprise Profit, Should Investors Buy GoPro Stock?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

GPRO posted a profit, although the best hope for the owners of GPRO stock is that the company finds a buyer

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