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

Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries the world. They will collaborate on a 36-hour to create a sellable . They will also listen to featured from the technology and world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young and clearly ambitious. He has shown the world that is just a number." 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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