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Tech giants Facebook and Google in competition to the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak the interest of the companies after he an app for a game called Impossible Rush. The app has been more than 500,000 times since its launch in October. The addictive game to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been by Facebook’s internship department for a tour of the company’s headquarters in California. He is also being by Google, whose vice president has him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could one of their future developers.

Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs on a Google and MIT sponsored event Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been from ten countries across the world. They will on a 36-hour project to a sellable product. They will also to featured speakers from the technology and hacking world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, : "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly ambitious. He has the world that age is just a number." He added that: "[Pasternak's] iPhone app extremely impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was by a 15-year-old."

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