controversial business relationships. plus, content kings. cbs and viacom finally inked a $11.7 billion merger deal. we will talk to viacom's ceo about synergies and the road ahead. what slowing economy? chinese online retailer alibaba defies the slowdown amidst a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. first to our top story, it was a big week for tech ipo's with wework and cloudflare filing to go public. the web security company cloudflare has been in the news lately, given its relationship with controversial message board, 8chan. three alleged gunman posted manifestos on 8chan before three separate mass shootings in the united states. cloudflare stopped providing services after the latest shooting in el paso, left two dozen dead, largely taking the platform off-line. so, is now the right time to go public for cloudflare? i discussed it with liliana baker and will curtain. >> like many other tech ideas, -- ipo's, especially in software, it is not profitable. it has a pretty good growth rate though. it's really trying to look at its competitor, fastly. fastly went public

status as the most powerful woman in u.s. media as cbs agrees to join with viacom. shares of apple and chipmakers sword in tuesday trading after the u.s. delayed tariffs on certain imports including smartphones as well as laptops. trump said, "is to case they might have an impact on people, what we have done is delay it so they won't be relevant during the christmas shopping season." to discuss in washington, the president of the u.s.-china business council. sarah, do we have any idea what the motivation is for the change of heart? sarah: we do know that the news gave a bump to the stock market. we sell retail and technology stocks go up today. there have been some declines in share prices in recent weeks. of course, that is an immediate cheer from the market. what we don't know what was discussed between officials of the china and the u.s. on the phone call. they were waiting on purchases from china on agricultural goods and other promises. really the continuation of trade talks. we don't know what kind of promises were given in exchange for this delay. as you said, it is about $110 b

, content kings. cbs and viacom finally inked a merger deal. we speak to buy comes a ceo about synergies and the road ahead. and chinese online retailer alibaba defies the slowdown of missed a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. it was a big week for tech ideas with fleet work and cloudflare filing to go public. cloudflare has been in the news given its relationship with 8chan. three alleged gunman posted manifestoes on 8chan before three mass shootings. cloudflare stop providing services after el paso, texas, largely taking the platform off-line. so is now the time to go public? >> like many other tech ideas, especially in software, it is not profitable. it has a pretty good growth rate, it is really trying to look at competitors. fastly went public earlier this year and is doing ok. there have been some sources who were asking me why cloudflare took this long to get this point. they had been preparing since the fall of last year for a public offering. emily: cloudflare is a name we have heard of the companies that will go public soon. tell us exactly what cloudflare does. in the

relationships. plus, content kings. we talked to the ceo about the road -- cbs and viacom finally inked a merger deal. we speak to buy comes a ceo about synergies and the road ahead. and chinese online retailer alibaba defies the slowdown of missed a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. first to our top story, it was a big week for tech ideas with fleet work and cloudflare filing to go public. the web security company cloudflare has been in the news lately, given its relationship with controversial message board, 8chan. three alleged gunman posted manifestoes on 8chan before three mass shootings in the united states. cloudflare stop providing services after el paso, texas, less than two dozen dead, largely taking the platform off-line. so, is now the time to go public for cloudflare? >> like many other tech ideas, especially in software, it is not profitable. it has a pretty good growth rate, though. it's really trying to look at its competitor, fastly. fastly went public earlier this year and is doing ok. there have been some sources who were asking me why cloudflare too