
Update apps if you're on older version of Play Store.Update apps if you're on the latest version of Play Store.Now many users are running messaging apps and games simultaneously.īlueStacks now has 105 employees and has raised $30 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung.Updating your apps from the Google Play Store helps you utilize all the latest in-app features. BlueStacks 2 can also run multiple apps in different tabs for the first time. When someone clicks on an ad, a new tab opens where people can view the ad later without interrupting gameplay. It has a new browser-like user interface. BlueStacks 2 adds features for better gameplay and app discovery. Now the company is launching BlueStacks 2, a mobile-gaming platform that spans mobile, PC, and TV.

The company’s website recently surpassed 8 million unique visitors a month. Overall, BlueStacks is adding 220,000 new users a day, more than double the rate of a year ago. These users spend a lot of money, which has attracted a lot of app developers to the BlueStacks platform. Sharma said that many hardcore PC gamers are using BlueStacks because they want to play midcore mobile games. In addition, once someone discovers apps on PC or TV, they tend to use them across all of their devices, giving the BlueStacks platform powerful reach for developers.” The average Bluestacks user spends 89 minutes playing on their first day. It’s accelerated our growth and retention massively over the past year.
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“What we’ve learned is that the wider visual space lends itself more naturally to app discovery. “When we started, mobile apps, with their crisp resolution, looked and sounded gorgeous on PC and TV,” said BlueStacks product manager Shashi Kant Sharma in a statement.

Now Sharma said the technology has much better performance. “Both have exceeded almost everyone’s expectations.”Ĭampbell, Calif.-based BlueStacks also launched its Gamepop micro-console, which lets people play Android games on a TV, in 2012. “I’ve watched this company come up as Android has come up over the years,” said Tim Bajarin, an analyst and president of Creative Strategies. It started making money via advertisements and later also made money via in-app purchases on its publishing platform.

The company launched the App Player, an Android emulator on the PC, in 2011. Sharma, the former chief technology officer at McAfee, started BlueStacks in 2009.
