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Although the death of DVD rental stores was predicted long ago and saw bookstores fall and fail in a far more spectacular fashion, Telstra’s sale of its BigPond DVD movie rental business may well be the last nail in the DVD’s coffin.

Zillow just announced that it has acquired the San Francisco-based rental and real estate search site HotPads for $16 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Telstra BigPond is to close its DVD rental business, sell its inventory and equipment to rival DVD rental business, Quickflix, and refer its customers to Quickflix.

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Zillow just announced the launch of Zillow Rentals, the company’s new ad-free marketplace for rental professionals and landlords.

The vacation rental industry is often overlooked, especially relative to hotels. So it might surprise you to learn that it’s actually a massive market, with bookings generating over $85 billion annually — in the U.S and Europe alone.

Telstra has revealed plans to shut down its long-running online DVD rental service, with customers to be referred instead to rival service Quickflix.

When we last covered peer-to-peer bike rental startup Spinlister, the startup had made it into the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield after being chosen as an Audience Choice winner earlier this month.