New York native Dan Ackerman is a former radio DJ turned journalist and author, and currently Editor-in-Chief of Micro Center, the iconic tech retailer.

Prior to that, he served as Editor in Chief of noted tech news and reviews website Gizmodo and as a long-time Editorial Director at CNET, where he led a team covering the vast personal technology industry. Dan is also a regular TV talking head and long-time in-house tech expert on CBS Mornings.

Dan’s non-fiction business history book, The Tetris Effect (Hachette/PublicAffairs), covers a tangled web of software licensing deals in the Cold War Soviet Union, and has earned rave reviews from the New York Times (“The story shines”), Fortune, WIRED, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.

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