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

Intel Corporation Stock Will Stay Stuck Without a Bigger Mobile Play

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Intel showed off impressive new chips for PCs at Taiwan's Computex trade show, but this did not move the stock.

Palo Alto Networks Inc.: Can the ‘$128 Million Man’ Invigorate PANW Stock?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Palo Alto Networks is betting $128 million per year that Nikesh Arora can enhance its cloud security leadership, which bodes well for PANW stock.

Continued Scandals Are Keeping Citigroup Inc. Stock Cheap

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Citigroup stock performs the worst among the big banks as scandals and fines keep coming.

Starbucks Corporation: Schultz Calls Time, Should You?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Howard Schultz has positioned Starbucks Corporation as a global brand, and positioned himself as a centrist in the coming 2020 Presidential race.

Apple Inc. Stock Can Tough Out the Continuing War with Facebook

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Apple's attack on Facebook over privacy is a proxy war for whether you should pay for technology directly or through ads.

Roku Inc Stock Makes for an Interesting Speculative Play

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Roku could become the subject of a bidding war among Internet and media companies, if it can keep growing platform revenue. This makes ROKU stock an interesting speculative play.

Microsoft Corporation’s GitHub Purchase Marks End of an Era

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

After fighting open source for over a decade, Microsoft has made itself the movement's leader under Satya Nadella, buying GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock.

Smartphone Addiction Is at the Heart of the Great Game

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Voice interfaces, leading to artificial intelligence applications, are how the biggest cloud companies will fight our addiction to our phones.

How GDPR Crackdown on Adtech Hurts Facebook More Than Google

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation is designed to level the playing field between publishers and platforms by cracking down on adtech. But, so far, it appears that companies like Google will be less affected than others.

GrubHub Inc Is in a Food Delivery Bubble

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

GrubHub stock is being upgraded by analysts, and the company is growing rapidly, but how long can this go on?

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