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

Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven from the Pandemic?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Since the start of the year the value of the U.S. dollar is up against other currencies, while bitcoin is down relative to the dollar.

Coronavirus Makes 3M a Battlefield Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

As great as the medical side of 3M may be, it has many units in consumer and industrial markets that are shut-in by the coronavirus, keeping a lid on MMM stock right now.

Microsoft Stock Is the Market’s True Winner

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Microsoft stock is about the only stock working in this market, as the company's Azure cloud shows its strength across the tech landscape.

Investors Are Wondering: Where’s Warren Buffett?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Warren Buffett has made his career swooping in at times of maximum panic and saving the economy by scooping up bargains. This time he has $128 billion of cash to work with.

Bed, Bath, Beyond and Oops

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

CEO Mark Tritton laid off people, sold and leased back his stores, and promised a new executive team. Then the virus hit.

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