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Toy company Hasbro has released dozens of versions of Monopoly. There are the Stars Wars, NFL and Nascar versions, to name a few. Last week, Hasbro released the latest edition, focusing on Internet-related businesses and the so-called "new" economy. Commentator Bob Parks, Senior Editor at Wired magazine, has played the game and has a review.

Linda Wertheimer traveled to New York City to look into the viability of Web sites run by three news organizations; ABC News, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. All three sites have not reached profitability but all of them have made a firm commitment to remain online. The Wall Street Journal site is the only one that requires subscribers to pay. Recently, advertising revenue has diminished which is making it even harder for these sites to make a profit. ABC News and the New York Times have recently had significant layoffs in their digital divisions.

Scott talks with Mike Daisey, a former employee of Amazon.com who has produced a one-man show about his short career at Amazon. The show is called 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com. It can be seen in its entirety on the web at http://mikedaisey.com.

NPR's Emily Harris visited a boot camp for business people interested in new high-tech ventures. With the economy cooling and the bloom off the high-tech rose, these entrepreneurs are proving more cautious than a few years ago. They say this crash course teaches them the business know-how needed to make their dot-com a success.

Lisa speaks with John Chowning, Vice President of Church and External relations at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville Kentucky about some of the things a town goes through when a factory shuts down. Two years ago the small town lost its largest employer, Fruit of the Loom, but some of the jobs were replaced by Amazon.com. In the last few weeks, residents there have been facing the fear once again of potential job loss, but so far the town has escaped job cuts, at least for now. (5:30).

One of our favorite new games of 2014.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Christopher Byron, a Bloomberg News columnist, and author of the new book Delete Your Broker-dot-Com. about just what investors should and should not do with dot-com stocks.

Protests and rallies against how "dot-com" culture is changing certain districts in the San Francisco bay area just reached a new level. This month the city of San Mateo banned "dot-coms" from locating in its downtown district. From member station KQED, Caitlyn Kim reports.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on the new reality behind dot com companies. In the Internet's early days, being the first company to offer a service was thought to guarantee success. Now, competition means the best company will win. A large number of dot coms are expected to fold because investors have become more cautious over which company gets their investment.

Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says it's the investors themselves, not the dot-com innovators, who are to blame for the big losses they sustained when Internet companies flopped.