Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay about $486 million in cash, or $17.50 per share, for Greenfield Online Inc., owner of Ciao, a European shopping comparison site. Microsoft says it will integrate Ciao with Microsoft Live Search to build a better Internet

The completion of Main Street Eldersburg, the state’s first “green” shopping center, has been pushed back until next fall, according to the developer.

Plans for a shopping center in western Millcreek are moving ahead, but reports that the anchor tenant will be a Walmart Supercenter are still unconfirmed.

The holiday shopping season is still months away, but a growing number of economists are predicting that it could even be worse than last year — which is to say, disastrous.

Online video shopping marketplace Shopflick has received $7 million in funding. Shopflick allows web sellers to create online shops with videos that provide information about how the products were made and who created them. Investment firms Panorama Capit