Michael Shawn Malone (born January 21, 1954) is an American author,
columnist, editor, investor, businessman, television producer, and has
been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a
columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street
Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of
Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in
Silicon Valley.Malone is the author of numerous books and has written
the "Silicon Insider" column for ABC since 2000. In his professional
writing he usually uses the name Michael S. Malone, to distinguish his
work from that of another U.S. author named Michael Malone, primarily
a writer of fiction.Malone was born in 1954 in Fürstenfeldbruck in
Bavaria, a state in what was then West Germany. His father was a
dyslexic U.S. Air Force officer who later worked as a freelance
writer. Malone's family has a history of reporting, with his
great-grandfather and his grandmother working in the field. After
living in Munich for a time, he grew up in Sunnyvale, California. He
graduated from Santa Clara University in 1975, and received his MBA
from SCU in 1977.
columnist, editor, investor, businessman, television producer, and has
been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a
columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street
Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of
Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in
Silicon Valley.Malone is the author of numerous books and has written
the "Silicon Insider" column for ABC since 2000. In his professional
writing he usually uses the name Michael S. Malone, to distinguish his
work from that of another U.S. author named Michael Malone, primarily
a writer of fiction.Malone was born in 1954 in Fürstenfeldbruck in
Bavaria, a state in what was then West Germany. His father was a
dyslexic U.S. Air Force officer who later worked as a freelance
writer. Malone's family has a history of reporting, with his
great-grandfather and his grandmother working in the field. After
living in Munich for a time, he grew up in Sunnyvale, California. He
graduated from Santa Clara University in 1975, and received his MBA
from SCU in 1977.
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