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

SoFi Technologies Needs to Gain API Traction Before Once-SPAC Shares Will Move

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

CEO Anthony Noto is building his online banking operation on fees, for loans, for investing, and for online banking services to other banks. SOFI stock won't move until that gains traction.

IBM Stock Is a Lot More Attractive as It Refocuses and Trims Down

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

IBM's focus will be on hybrid cloud, helping clients move some cloud infrastructure onto their own servers, and making those systems compatible with public clouds.

Salesforce Stock Is One To Buy Not for Today’s Market but for Tomorrow’s

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Salesforce.com will make Slack its primary user interface, then bring in an AI engine called Einstein behind it to let managers build their own applications.

Cerner Stock Could See a Bump If It Gets Gobbled up By a Cloud Company

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Mainstream cloud vendors backed away from the healthcare space a decade ago, fearful of regulation, but they're now adapting to regulation in their main markets and might want to get back in.

Netflix Is Not Maximizing the Value of Its Intellectual Property… Yet

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Netflix has yet to fully capitalize on the value of its intellectual property in games, cruising or theme parks. Getting into NFLX now is a chance to speculate on that success.

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