Andy Mukherjee, Columnist

Listen Hard, Mark. Google's Turned Up the Audio

Outside of China, emerging-market digital payments are still anybody's game.
Photographer: AFP/Getty Images
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Serves you right, Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook Inc. lost so much time peddling a controlled internet-lite Bloomberg Terminalto 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.