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

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