Teen whiz kid eyes Google, Facebook after creating addictive game — mashable.com

Ben Pasternak isn't your average Australian teenager. At 15, he has created an iPhone game that rose up the App Store charts at an incredible rate. In the first six weeks after its October launch, Impossible Rush had been downloaded 500,000 times. It overtook Vine, Google and Twitter as it quickly clocked up downloads with its addictive nature. Pasternak, from Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, created the app with another teen in Chicago, Austin Valleskey, while he was bored at school. Now, the whiz kid is in the United States being sussed out by some of the biggest tech companies in the world including Google, Facebook and Yahoo — where he hopes to secure an internship.

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