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Tech Facebook and Google are competing for the of a 15-year-old app . Australian Ben Pasternak sparked the of the companies with his app for a called Impossible Rush. It has been downloaded than 500,000 times since its . The addictive game climbed higher than Vine and Twitter in the App Store. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook’s department for a of the company’s . The vice-president of Google asked him to visit the Google campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.

Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged attending an event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers are from ten countries. They will collaborate on a 36-hour to create a sellable . They will also listen to speakers from the technology world. The organiser of the , said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly . He has shown the world that age is just a ." He added that: "[Pasternak's] iPhone app was impressive and if we were to guess, we never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."

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