February 6th, 2013

5 Startups Show Their Connection To Parallels And Its Software Play In The Hosting World

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A software company’s conference in Las Vegas for hosting executives is not exactly where I’d expect to see a bunch of startups showing off what they do. But when the software company’s chairman of the board is also an investor in the startups then the reason for their attendance becomes pretty clear. → Read More

September 4th, 2012

Why The Source Of Venture Capital Is As Important As The Money Itself

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This post is written by Serguei Beloussov, PhD, is a Senior Founding Partner at Runa Capital, a founder of a virtualization technology company Parallels. Follow him on twitter.

Money can be different; it can be “smart” and “not so smart”. When seeding or growing a start-up, it’s critical to attract the “right” investors with “smart” money.  While this may fly in the face of conventional… → Read More

September 14th, 2010

Video: Parallels 6 Mobile App Has Windows Software (Including Flash) Running On The iPad

Parallels 6 for Mac OS X launches today. You knew that, yes. But did you also know the Parallels Mobile App iTunes link found on the iTunes Store now plays nice with your iPad? Think of the possibilities: Windows software, now on your iPad. Yes, that means you can now run Flash on your iPad. Why you’d want that processor-melting software ruining your iPad experience, I don’t know, but options are… → Read More

August 25th, 2009

Parallels Switch the Mac bundle lets you switch to Mac

Are you ready for Windows 7? Remember, you need go out and get a really nice computer with a nice monitor and lots of hard drive space – basically you’re going to have to get a Mac. Don’t worry, though. It’s easy to switch.

Parallels is essentially a virtual machine that can run almost any version of Windows. The $100 software and hardware solution lets you drag everything from your old Windows… → Read More

January 1st, 2009

CrunchDeals: Free Parallels for Windows/Linux

Thats right. You heard it. Parallels for free. It may not be the version for Mac, but you can still virtualize Windows in Linux or vice versa. Just head over to this link and request a key. → Read More

May 9th, 2008

Parallels nows supports Vista SP1, XP SP3

Parallels, the virtualization software that lets you run Windows apps on an Intel Mac, now supports Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. The latest version, which was released earlier today, costs $80, the same as VMware’s competing application Fusion. I used Parallels once, sometime last year, and couldn’t couldn’t connect to the Internet within Windows. So I freaked out and… → Read More

July 6th, 2007

New Parallels Ads: I'm a Mac and You're a PC and I'm an Undying Metaphor for the War Between Two Methods for Writing Data to Magnetic Disks, Displaying Information

Parallels, everyone’s favorite thing to download once, install, try, and then remove because there’s really nothing you need to install on your Mac from Windows except maybe an IDE or game or something, created a set of fairly cool Mac vs. PC ads that don’t drive the whole divide into the ground. → Read More