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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.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/InternetNews?a=KBi8vX"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/Reuters/InternetNews?i=KBi8vX" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=lGCX0K"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=lGCX0K" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=FJ65Zk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=FJ65Zk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?a=7hFZLk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/Reuters/InternetNews?i=7hFZLk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/InternetNews/~4/379764799" height="1" width="1"/>