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

Does J. C. Penney Stock Have 10-Bagger Potential?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

New J.C. Penney CEO Jill Soltau made Jo-Ann Stores a leader in cloth and crafts, but can she make JCP stock a buy again?

Will Amazon Stock Rise as the Company Becomes the New Costco?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Amazon stock is a long-term buy because it has the lowest-cost infrastructure in every industry it touches, and it remains focused on that.

Chesapeake Energy Stock Weighed By Debt As Wyoming Beckons

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Chesapeake Energy is betting that Wyoming will become a profit engine, with more oil than gas. CHK stock investors have only so much patience.

3 Medical Devices Stocks to Buy

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

When considering medical devices stocks to buy, consider companies with FDA-approved devices, growing sales and overall financial strength.

Square Stock Is Benefiting From the Strong Economy

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

SQ stock has advanced on the strength of small businesses, which are very vulnerable to a downturn in the economy.

Why Roku Stock Looks Poised to Retreat

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The market cap of Roku stock is more than ten times above analysts' consensus 2018 revenue estimate, as its competition intensifies.

Drug Company Partnerships Set Cronos Stock Apart, but not Enough

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Cronos has a deal to try and grow marijuana in a lab and isolate the compounds as pharmaceuticals, but it still trades like a pot stock

Can Stability in the Price of Bitcoin Last?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

When the bitcoin price stabilizes, it will be a medium of exchange, so you can trade other goods with it, without speculating on bitcoin.

With Flannery Out, Is General Electric Stock a Winner?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Culp transformed Danaher into a healthcare technology company, and General Electric believes Culp can do for GE stock what Flannery couldn't.

Google Stock Is Vulnerable for Reasons You Might Not Have Considered

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Google has been censored in Europe for years, but its project to enter China has put it into the political crosshairs

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