About Fred
Bio
Fred Vogelstein is contributing editor at Wired in San Francisco where he writes about the business and technology of Silicon Valley. There and at previous jobs at Fortune magazine and US News & World Report he's authored some of the seminal stories about the region's transformation from computer industry hub into ground zero for the most powerful companies on the planet. They include some of the earliest investigations into Bill Gates' fear of Google, the mess at Yahoo, the smartphone wars, and both the rise and now, the growing pains of Facebook. He's been a finalist for The Gerald Loeb Award, business journalism's top prize. His 2013 book Dogfight: How Apple and Google went to War and Started a Revolution was published in 17 countries to critical acclaim.
Earlier in his career he wrote about finance for The Wall Street Journal and Newsday. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe.
He has been a fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University and has a BA in political science from Pomona College.
Email him at fvogelstein@gmail.com
His web page is fredvogelstein.com