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

Sprout Social Stock Is a Little Plant With a Too-Big Valuation

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Sprout Social is just a little plant in a hot social media industry. While the potential is there, the valuation on Sprout stock is too high.

Workday Becomes Prosaic

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Workday fell after first quarter earnings disappointed analysts, but those numbers weren't bad and the company is still mining its niche in the cloud.

eBay Needs a Better Reputation and Higher Annual Sales

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Thanks to some hedge funds, eBay has sold its classifieds business and is focusing on payments. But eBay stock needs more to thrive.

7 Stocks for Beginners

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Your first investment will teach important lessons about the value of time, and the need to pay attention.

MongoDB: Great Software, Bad Business

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

MongoDB is a database built for the cloud, based on documents rather than structure. But its costs continue to grow as fast as its revenue.

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