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Meta plans to take a nearly 50% cut on virtual asset sales in its metaverse

The 47.5% figure includes a hardware platform fee of 30% for sales made through the Meta Quest Store, where it sells apps and games for its virtual reality headsets.

On top of that, Horizon Worlds, will charge a 17.5% fee.

Meta’s fees for the sale of virtual assets on Horizon Worlds are significantly more than the 30% Apple charges developers on its App Store.

Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav has charmed the Hollywood elite — now he’ll have to show he can manage them, too

David Zaslav officially takes over as the new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery as the company begins trading on the Nasdaq on Monday.

Zaslav is known for his gregarious personality and has been on a monthslong “listening tour” of Hollywood.

Friends say he has a chance to be Hollywood’s next leader with high emotional intelligence, but he’ll have to be careful not to disenfranchise current leadership or get bogged down in minutia.

“It may be the right time for a new man because the industry is changing so rapidly,” longtime Zaslav associate Lloyd Blankfein