Bluestacks is a Silicon Valley-based software company that produces BlueStacks App Player and BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Both products revolve around enabling Android applications to run on Macintosh computers, Windows PC's and Windows tablets. The company was founded in 2009 by Rosen Sharma, former CTO at McAfee and board member of Cloud.com.
The company officially launched May 25, 2011 at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton demonstrated an early version of BlueStacks onstage and announced that the companies had formed a partnership. App Player and Cloud Connect officially launched into public alpha on October 11, 2011.App Player is a downloadable piece of Windows software that comes pre-loaded with several apps including Bloomberg News, Words With Friends and Drag Racing.More apps can be downloaded using the "Featured Apps" channel provided with the software. Cloud Connect is an Android App downloadable from the Android Market that allows additional apps to be pushed into BlueStacks App Player from any Android device. The products are now listed as beta software available for free download.
On October 13, 2011, BlueStacks was the subject of a CNET TV video review by Senior Editor Seth Rosenblatt.
On March 27, 2012, the company release the beta-1 version of its App Player software. The program was downloaded over a million times in the first 10 days. This was followed by an undisclosed investment from Qualcomm.
On June 27, 2012, the company released an alpha-1 version of its App Player software for Mac OS. A launch party including a mock wedding between Mac and Android was held at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
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