lafarge. i'm interested to get his take. what is it going to take to get the french economy back on track? we'll talk about that a little bit later here on "the pulse". in the meantime, let's talk about some of the other m&a news that we're talking about. there is plenty around this morning. other as agreed to buy businesses. manus cranny joins with us the details. the stock down pretty low at the get-go this morning. are minority investors concerned maybe this deal is serving a higher power and not their best interest? >> for the skeptical audience, you're 100% correct. very accurate take. relative to the rest -- we are at a saturation point in the united kingdom. that would be the view, guy. bskyb is very much there. we're picking up the extra products on the go, download . can they all come together and deliver synergies and a growth that is sort of make this deal convincing to the minority shareholders, the other 71% of people that own bskyb who get to vote because fox doesn't get to vote in this deal. we caught one the

lafarge said it is buying out anglo american -- lafarge plans to sell other portions to satisfy the antitrust regulators. the merger will create the biggest cement maker in the world. that is company news items. a monday morning we say again, good morning to all of you. this is a kickoff of the second half of 2014, the five-day work week. loca, but la vida valuations.h scylla was the 2014 example. zilla was the 2014 example. what is different this time around? lees advise me, but more what is different this time around? >> what is different is we have got adoption throughout the entire company -- throughout the entire country and throughout marketsd, so the are mainstream. >> do you care about the profits right there? valuationation, total evens out. i have never seen a valuation like zillow. valuatione seen a like that. i was on the board of directors. forold that went to sap forward revenue. why is this happening? because there is fundamental change happening in the tech world. this ep is the largest software company in the world, but it is on premise. they have to go to the cloud. success

the chief executive of lafarge is joining us. plus, at 9:30 we get u.k. gdp.e back to pre-recession levels. rob wood is going to join us with the numbers and we are going to figure out what they mean for britain. back in a couple of minutes. ♪ of the world's biggest distillers. hans nichols. >> there is really only one way to clean it. with more vodka. >> it is made on local ingredients and we make really good vodka here in downtown berlin. >> but it is not also innocent. in a bid for local street grade, the world's second-biggest distiller converted this old garage and financed the project. >> they came up with the idea to build ike road distilleries around the world and have -- theo-distilleries around world and have local people running them. >> before it gets bubble, it needs to be tested for taste and alcohol content. some drinkers have a vodka problem. but vodka has a drinkers problem. there are not enough of them. this delivery's like this one are trying to reverse that trend. >> it is not quite bathtub vodka but its operators know the local market. >>