Michael S. Malone
| Michael S. Malone | |
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| Malone at Los Altos History Museum | |
| Born | Michael Shawn Malone January 21, 1954 Fürstenfeldbruck, West Germany | 
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| Nationality | American | 
| Education | Santa Clara University (MBA) | 
| Subject | Business, media, computer technology, law, politics | 
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Michael Shawn Malone (born January 21, 1954) is an American author, columnist, editor, investor, businessman, and television producer. He has been the host of several shows on PBS. As of 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.