Fortune Small Business shuts down The closure of the 18-year-old title, owned by American Express and published by Time Inc., comes amid bigger cuts at the Time Warner company   Hef: We're slashing Playboy's rate base Men's title will drop from 2.6 million to 1.5 million in January, dropping behind Maxim and Men's Health in total circulation   BusinessWeek editor scoots with sale Steve Adler resigns after four years as top editor as the title moves from McGraw-Hill to Bloomberg. Can Pearlstine do any better?   Done deal: BW goes to Bloomberg New York mayor's publishing empire pays a few million for title once valued at a billion, with the aim of building it back up   Not all magazines are being clobbered Several categories of titles are holding onto ad pages fairly well: Women's service, entertainment and health/fitness (charts)   Magazines take yet another ad bath PIB: Pages tumble 26.6 percent in the third quarter, but amid the gloom there's a ray or two of hope. One ad category shows gains.   Ooh-ah, Marge Simpson bares (nearly) all Cartoon mom appears on the cover of the newsstand issue of Playboy, in a pitch to lure young males as readers. Some curves.   Conde Nast closing four magazines Axed: Gourmet, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie following McKinsey study on streamlining the company as slump drags on   What the closings say about magazines Typically it's the weak titles that get the axe, but Gourmet has been a strong title. Talking with TargetCast's Roberta Garfinkle.   Zuckerman joins the bidding for BW NY Daily News owner: We'd run it more efficiently. Joins four other potential buyers of ailing BusinessWeek, led by Bloomberg. next >>