As BusinessWeek’s first issue under Bloomberg is prepared to hit the newsstands, the magazine’s bimonthly sibling, SmallBiz, will no longer be published. The six-year-old mag will live on through BusinessWeek.com’s Small Business Channel. The final issue of SmallBiz will be the December 2009/January 2010 edition. The closing of SmallBiz isn’t much of a surprise, especially in light of Time Inc’s shuttering of Fortune Small Business earlier last month. Release
BusinessWeek already cut 100 staffers — including small business staffer Amy Choi — before officially transitioning from McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) to Bloomberg this past week. Since SmallBiz didn’t have any dedicated staff separate from BusinessWeek, no further layoffs are expected, Mediaweek reported.

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