In early 2015, we will be developing a central product catalog management utility for one of our HikaShop clients. It will allow all of the product titles, images, descriptions, categories, etc. to be centrally maintained, while enabling pricing, publish/unpublish state, etc. to be controlled per HikaShop website.
This type of central HikaShop product management isn't likely to turn into an extension per se, as it will be developed to exactly meet our client's needs. However, you may want to check with us in Q1 2015 to see how that project is progressing and see what it might take to get a similar solution for your own stores.