Meetic.com and be2 are No. 1 and 2 in Europe, and Amigos.com is second only to MSN in Latin America, according to comScore.

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But China's QQ.com Love ranks highest in Asia, Meetic and be2 are No. 1 and 2 in Europe and Amigos.com is second only to MSN in Latin America, according to comScore.

FORBES: Seeking Love Around The Web

They include such figures as Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet of Priceminister, Marc Simoncini of Meetic, and Xavier Niel of Iliad, who launched Free, a telecoms firm, from nothing to take on the established giants.

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Last December ten times as many came and on the stage were plenty of Europeans, including Marten Mickos of MySQL, a maker of databases now owned by Oracle, a software giant, Marc Simoncini, founder of meetic.com, Europe's largest dating site, and Niklas Zennstrom, who started Skype.

ECONOMIST: Europe's tech entrepreneurs