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Stamps.com is a company that provides Internet-based mailing and shipping services. Stamps.com is a public company and trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol STMP. The company headquarters are in El Segundo, California. ==History== Founded in 1996, Stamps.com was created under the name StampMaster by Jim McDermott, Ari Engelberg and Jeff Green. StampMaster was among the first companies to obtain USPS approval for beta testing and introduce Internet postage to the market. The Postal Service began announcing proposals for digital delivery of postage in 1996. Stamps.com finished its Series A funding in February 1998 with $1.5 million. Series B funding followed in August 1998 with $4.52 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Company description )〕 It had its last round of private financing in February 1999, which generated $30 million〔 from investors including former Postmaster General, Marvin Runyon.〔 The company went public in June of the same year〔 and raised $55 million in its IPO.〔 Less than six months after its IPO, the company had its second public offering.〔 In August 1999, the Postal Service granted permission for Stamps.com to sell their service nationally.〔 Stamps.com purchased IShip.com, a company which compared prices of shipping services, for $305 million in stock or eight million shares, in October 1999. In 2001, Stamps.com named Ken McBride its CEO. The U.S. Postal Service authorized the first market test of PhotoStamps in 2004. In 2005, the company reported $10.4 million in net income.〔 PhotoStamps was re-launched in May 2005 for another year-long test run. The United States Congress amended a law that prohibited attaching business advertising to postage in January 2006, and lifted the restriction in May of that year, which allowed businesses to use PhotoStamps.〔 In September 2006, the company launched Photo NetStamps, which combined its previous NetStamps product with PhotoStamps. This combination allowed PhotoStamps to be used with exact postage printed from Stamps.com software.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Stamps.com Launches Photo NetStamps )〕 By 2008, Stamps.com had over 300,000 customers. The company recorded a revenue of $38.6 million in 2012.〔 By 2013, it had approximately 465,000 registered customers.〔 Stamps.com reported $147.3 million in revenue the following year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Stamps.com Inc )〕 It acquired ShipStation, a web-based multi-carrier shipping solution based in Austin, Texas, in June 2014 for $50 million and up to 768,900 shares of stock. ShipStation was founded in 2010 and creates tools to import orders from shopping cart platforms for order fulfillment The acquisition made ShipStation an independent subsidiary of Stamps.com operated by its existing management team. In October that same year, Stamps.com acquired ShipWorks, a multi-carrier shipping software company that integrates with shopping cart platforms, for $22 million. ShipWorks continues to operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary. Newell Rubbermaid entered into an agreement to sell Endicia, an internet postage company, to Stamps.com in March 2015 for $215 million. Endicia includes the DYMO Stamps brand and PictureItPostage.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stamps.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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