Bloomberg Businessweek
September 1929 – The Business Week begins publishing shortly before the October stock market crash. While the fledgling company had no way of knowing that the next decade would be a time when dozens of trade business publications would falter and those that did succeed would struggle to maintain circulation, its creation of a weekly magazine devoted to general news about business and the economy gave the magazine format a new outlet for business journalism.
Two factors that should help: iPad and iPhone users get a free issue of the magazine for downloading the app, and, maybe more importantly, Apple’s…