Tech giants Facebook and Google are competing for the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies with his app for a game called Impossible Rush. It has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch. The addictive game climbed higher than Vine and Twitter in the App Store. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook's internship department for a tour of the company's headquarters. 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 entrepreneurs attending an event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers are from ten different countries. They will collaborate on a 36-hour project to create a sellable product. They will also listen to famous speakers from the technology world. The organiser of 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 by a 15-year-old."