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Armand Rousso, also known as Marc Rousso, is a French businessman. He is the founder of Accoona.com, a business-to-business search engine, and X3D Technology. He is the father of Vanessa Rousso, professional poker player and Big Brother contestant. == Biography == French born entrepreneur Armand Rousso settled in the United States in 1982, working as a trader of stamps. In 1985 he stated he bartered $45 million (catalog value) in rare stamps. In 1986, when the Internet was little known entity, Rousso started an online stamp exchange website, ''The International Stamp Exchange'', which lasted until 1990. The International Stamp Exchange was part of a network by David N. Glassman who created NaicoNet the first online retail online stock trading system. He thought online advertising revenues could be lucrative enough to make a business dedicated to philatelists profitable. In the mid 1990s, Rousso became involved with Philippe V. Hababou, a Frenchman convicted of check fraud. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money-laundering charges; in 1999, he was convicted of securities fraud in France and was also noted in the investigation over illegal campaign contributions to the 1996 Senate campaign of Robert G. Torricelli.〔 Rousso was identified as having bought at auction the Treskilling Yellow, a unique Swedish postage stamp printed in the wrong color. 〔(John Finch, Mystery Owner of Treskilling Yellow Rarity Revealed, Entrepreneur and Fixture on the Philatelic Scene ) 〕 The stamp had been auctioned on 22 May 2010, by David Feldman in Geneva, Switzerland, for at least $2.3 million, the world's record price for a stamp at auction. In May 2013 the stamp was acquired in a private sale by Count Gustaf Douglas, a Swedish nobleman and politician.〔(Treskilling Yellow is back in the hands of a philatelist ) by Julia Lee, stampmagazine.co.uk, 1 November 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013. (Archived here. )〕 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「Armand Rousso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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