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

, 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

"closing bell." a long awaited, long rumored deal is finally official cbs and viacom announcing their merger championed by vice chair and controlling shareholder sherry redstone. bob backish will become chief of the company. sumner redstone split it apart more than a decade ago it's all about size and scale, negotiating with cable distributors and tech companies but now the key question, do they need even more size and scale, and who could they buy or be acquired by for that let's bring in alex sherman who's been reporting all the details around this deal and it is looking at whether we could see another wave of k consolidation. >> we've been able to stew over this merger for about an hour now so it's time to think about what the next one is the fact of the matter is if you put both of these companies together, cbs and viacom, you still end up with a company that is dwarfed in size by the biggest players in the content industry these days. our parent company, comcast or at&t that bought time warner or disney, these companies are much bigger throw in google, amazon, netflix, appl

next, "vanity fair's" bill cohan will tell us why he thinks cbs and viacom may not be done with deals once their widely expected merger is announced. >>> also ahead i asked the ceo of adidas about the fallout from the trade war with china. >> there's going to be no winners if this were to continue, neither in china or the u.s. or for that sake in europe the quicker that everybody understands this is going to pull everybody down, the better it is. >> coming up, find out how much the trade war could impact his company's bottom line. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> welcome back we've got some news on j.c. penney seema mody has the story for us. >> j.c. penney has received notification from the new york stock exchange that it is not in compliant with the listing standards as its stock price is currently at 69 cents a share, which is below the $1. keep in mind it is required that listed c