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 Windows PCs, Macintosh computers and Windows tablets.
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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.