Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, December 26, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Travis Kalinik has cut all ties with Uber.

Sling does indeed have streaming pricing power.

Live streams are the new telethons.

YouTube considered doing the right thing but passed and is catalyst fundamentally flawed. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech.

I guess I am not above saying I told you so but Travis Kalinik has indeed

severed all ties with Uber stepping down from the company's board of directors

effective December 31st and he has apparently sold all of his shares in the company.

Now there is one thing that I didn't note when we talked about this before that should be noted.

Kalinik is not exactly writing off into the sunset or just putting all of his billions

into an S&P index fund and calling it a day, quoting cnbec.

In a statement Tuesday, Uber said Kalinik 43 is leaving to

quote focus on his new business and philanthropic endeavors and

quote Kalinik is launching his latest venture Cloud Kitchens

which rents out space to restaurants for delivery-based businesses.

Uber did not say who will fill Kalinik's board seat. An Uber spokesperson

said the ride-hailing company has quote strong director candidates to put forward

at the appropriate time and quote. Later a spokesperson for Kalinik confirmed to NBC that he and Ovee. I'll give Uber and Kalinik credit for stage managing his exit gracefully. I suspect

it was far messier than it looks from the outside."

End quote. If you'll recall we spoke about pricing power in the streaming space recently.

Well, DISH has increased the price of both of its Sling TV packages, orange and blue,

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