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Shippers FedEx and UPS on Friday said the Microsoft outage caused by a software glitch could lead to delayed package deliveries. 

FedEx acknowledged the interruption in a statement on its website Friday, saying “FedEx has experienced disruptions throughout our networks due to a global IT outage experienced by a third party software vendor.”

“Contingency plans have been activated to mitigate impacts but potential delays are possible for package deliveries with a delivery commitment of July 19, 2024,” FedEx added.  

Shipping and logistics company UPS also said the software outage was affecting some of the company’s systems, leading to potential delivery delays.

“A third-party software outage is impacting some UPS computer systems in the U.S. and Europe. At this time, our airline continues to operate effectively and our drivers are on the roads delivering for customers,” UPS said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. “We are continuing to work to resolve all issues as quickly as possible; there may be some service delays.”

The problems for shippers arrive two days after the conclusion of Amazon Prime Day, one of the biggest online shopping events of the year. It broke records, with consumers purchasing more than 200 million items from sellers across the platform, according to Amazon. Overall Amazon Prime Day sales hit a record $14.2 billion, according to Adobe Analytics.

The Microsoft outage is affecting businesses in other sectors too, snarling travel Friday with airlines cancelling more than 1,000 flights while the disruption took down their computer systems. 



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Husband of Russia’s richest woman arrested for murder after deadly shootout at offices of retail giant Wildberries

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The estranged husband of Russia’s richest woman and CEO of retail giant Wildberries was arrested Thursday and charged with several crimes including murder, a day after a deadly armed raid at the company’s central Moscow offices.

Billionaire Tatyana Bakalchuk released a tearful message a day earlier, saying her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, whom she is currently divorcing, led an armed raid into the Wildberries offices.  

Vladislav Bakalchuk’s lawyers said in a message on his social media page that he was “detained for 48 hours” and charged with murder, attempted murder, assault of a law enforcement officer and vigilantism.

Two people, including a security guard, were killed in the shooting at the offices, which lie a few streets away from the Kremlin.  

The incident came weeks after the company finalized a merger deal that Vladislav criticized and that strongman Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov vowed to stop.

Vladislav’s lawyers said he was on his way to a “pre-agreed meeting to settle a corporate conflict.”  Vladislav alleges that it was staff at the office who fired the first shots, the Reuters news agency reported.

But Bakalchuk called her husband’s claims “absurd” and said “no one agreed to any negotiations.”  

“Vladislav, what are you doing? How are you going to look in the eyes of your parents and our children?”

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Tatyana Bakalchuk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Wildberries OOO, in her office in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Feb. 16, 2021. 

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Wildberries is Russia’s largest online retailer. Tatyana Bakalchuk founded the company in 2004, growing it from an online clothes reseller into a major marketplace for countless other products, Reuters reported.

According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index in 2021, she was the 40th richest woman in the world and the first self-made woman billionaire out of Russia.

Tatyana Bakalchuk is the majority oner of the company, while her estranged husband holds a one-percent stake.



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