FedEx, Microsoft Join Forces Against Amazon for Package Shipping
- New service gives customers real-time data to avoid delays
- ‘A lot of intelligence, hides in this data,’ says FedEx COO
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FedEx Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to provide commercial shipping customers with early warnings of delays from weather, traffic and other mishaps, giving the courier and the software maker another weapon as each competes with Amazon.com Inc.
The service, using Microsoft’s cloud software, will give big and small companies real-time data to determine ways to improve how they move goods.