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 on the Verge of a Second Crypto Boom?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The Bitcoin boom is based on something that isn't related to crypto, the efforts by companies like Facebook and JPMorgan Chase to create a "stablecoin" turning money into electronic ink.

As People Worry over Libra, Facebook Stock Continues to Endure

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Facebook is not aimed at Americans, but at hundreds of millions of users for whom Facebook is the Internet, and the global banking system too expensive to use

Staying out of Antitrust Hearings Only Can Benefit Microsoft Stock

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

No one has yet suggested splitting clouds from the applicatoins which run on them, and that may be Microsoft's best hope of avoiding a second antitrust charge.

Netflix Stock Investors Fear Of The Roaring Mouse Is Misplaced

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Netflix' argument against Disney's franchises and AT&T's library is that it can turn even falling stars like Adam Sandler into huge draws. NFLX stock holders shouldn't worry.

Apple, The Spotify War and the Streaming Gold Mine

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Spotify claims Apple's app store is a "tax" on users of competing services, highlighting how AAPL stockcontrols content markets it is only now starting to enter.

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