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

Should You Buy Nvidia Stock for Its Mellanox Deal?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Nvidia is re-directing its energies to the cloud in buying Mellanox, and will now combine its fast graphics chips with Mellanox communications fabric.

Too Early or Too Late? General Electric Stock Has Investors Guessing

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

CEO Larry Culp's $21.4 billion success in selling part of GE's health business obscured continuing problems at GE Power and its debt. That doesn't bode well for GE stock.

Is Facebook Stock Still a Growth Play or Pure Speculation?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Facebook has found that censorship doesn't scale, so it's pivoting from public groups to private communications, hoping to become more like China's WeChat.

Buy Amazon Stock With Both Hands for This Catalyst

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Amazon uses its retailing and cloud services to climb the ladder of permission, selling subscriptions to everything from cat food to health care

Why Nike Stock Is for Investors and Under Armour Stock Is for Gamblers

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Comparing Nike to Under Armour is like comparing a whale to a minnow

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