Listen hard, Mark. Google's turned up the audio in India . It's too early to say if Tez will be a success, or if audio QR will become a dominant standard in Indian online payments Serves you right, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Inc. lost so much time peddling a controlled internet-lite to India's poor, it let Google score a lead where it truly matters: digital payments in the only billion-plus-people market open to Western tech firms. This week Google launched Tez , which means "fast" in Hindi, as an online payment application custom-built for the nation. Early users complained of glitches, but those are fixable. What's important is that by hitting the market before Zuckerberg's planned WhatsApp payment method, Google got the Indian government's blessing for an innovation that could become an emerging-market standard: audio QR. Quick response codes have put the Chinese digital payments market far ahead of Western counterparts, and Singapore w...