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Microsoft buys ciao.com to boost e-shopping search

LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison website ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe. <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Reuters/InternetNews?a=XHtzXq"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Reuters/InternetNews?i=XHtzXq" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=axlrWK"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=axlrWK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=7HDnCk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=7HDnCk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=XY6pak"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=XY6pak" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/InternetNews/~4/377880515" height="1" width="1"/>