Don Juan Forgotten as Spain Seeks Dating Help From Badoo
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Though it might make Latin legends Don Juan and Casanova spin in their graves, millions of Southern Europeans are turning to a Russian for help finding a local date.
Badoo, a London-based online service founded by Moscow native Andrey Andreev, has won the hearts of Spaniards, Italians and French by making it easier to find people nearby looking for romance. The seven-year-old company says it has signed up some 200 million people worldwide, 25 million of them active users, making it the biggest dating service, according to ComScore.