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Australian real estate Web site RealHolidays.com.au has teamed up with travel site Oodles.com to supply car rental to travelers looking for a holiday home. 

Local online advertising vendor WebVisible has partnered with American Classifieds to manage display and banner ads on American Classifieds network of 80 Web sites.

A new survey conducted by Survey.com on behalf of Autobytel reveals some depressing facts about the state of the automotive industry in the current down market.

Online shopping site Overstock.com has extended its business model to feature real estate and automotive.

CarFax is making its Vehicle History Reports available to users of HomeNet’s Inventory Online (IOL) vehicle marketing suite.

Even before this week’s financial markets melt down, the American economy has been slowing rather dramatically lately. Car and home sales are significantly down.

A new report from Bernstein Research out today predicts the financial markets crisis will hit newspapers particularly hard. 

About 75 percent of gamers gave peers advice about which vehicle to buy—up from 63 percent last year.

Autobytel has cut 75 jobs out of a total of 225 staff members under a cost-cutting plan it began last year. The company has also retained RBC Capital Markets Corp. as a financial adviser to help it explore strategic alternatives including the possible sale of the company.

EBay’s at it again. Only a few months after the company got slammed in Australia and was forced to back down over a plan to force all its sellers and buyers to use PayPal, which EBay owns, the company is trying the same maneuver in the U.S. 

Adicio partner HeraldNet has seen a 25 percent increase in online classified traffic.

TrueCar aims to help customers negotiating with a dealer over price by arming them with data on what real buyers are paying for the same vehicle.

With Queanunciar.com a new classified ads Web portal was started in Spain in September.

The Portuguese car magazine “Motor Clássico” will launch a new website in November.

Fox International Channel has redesigned AutoMundo.com.

PennySaverUSA.com has added a new automotive widget that allows consumers to browse thousands of automotive classified listings.

Web classifieds vendor Adicio has been busy, making a number of announcements in August covering a new real estate packages manager, an increase in real estate clients, a new PowerLeads Buy product for automotive and an update on its alliance with Monster