IN THE NEWS
CarrotLines and PortaLife Solutions have been featured in a number of local and international media.
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MarketWire and many others: PortaLife Solutions Inc.: Leading Canadian iPhone Application-CarrotLines-Partners With Local Healthy Brands
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 24, 2011) - CarrotLines, Canada's leading iPhone application that helps Canadians make healthier choices is partnering with local food brands in the natural, health and organic segments....more.
Tech Vibes: When it comes to healthy eating, forget the stick, and use CarrotLines: January 2011
Countless Canadians make their New Years’ resolution a challenge to themselves to eat better. Year after year, we promise ourselves that this is when we start eating better food and take better care of our bodies...more.
The Vancouver Sun: Mobile World Report: December 2010
CarrotLines makes healthy eating easy. CarrotLines' iPhone app lets consumers create a profile specifying nutritional, lifestyle, and allergy attributes. In store, shoppers can use their iPhone to scan product's barcode...more.
The National (UAE): Reality TV Show Spotlights Young Arab Science Stars: 20 October
Some of the innovators from the first season are already reaping rewards. One of last year's finalists, the Algerian computer engineer Wahiba Chair [...] Her application CarrotLines launched in June. More.
The Vancouver Sun: Stars Of The App Universe: 19 October
An iPhone app, this is really useful at the grocery store, especially if you have special dietary needs. And if you just want to make healthier choices, CarrotLines makes it way easier than squinting to figure out everything on the list of ingredients, More
The Vancouver Sun: Vancouver's Mobile Apps Reputation Growing: 19 October
Wahiba Chair, founder and chief executive of PortaLife Solutions is another participant in the Entrepreneurship@Wavefront program, where she is working to advance her company’s CarrotLines, More
Think Blink Media Works: APP SNAPSHOT: 22 July
Know Your Food with the CarrotLines App. There's just an app for about everything, now! More.
BC Technology News: PortaLife Solutions partners with Blenz Coffee: 21 July
Blenz Coffeeand PortaLife Solutions have partnered to let Health & Fitness Conscious Consumer, more.
Use CarrotLines to Scan Your Foods at Blenz Coffee: 19 July
Blenz Coffee partners with PortaLife Solutions to let Health & Fitness Conscious Consumers scan sandwiches and beverages directly from their iPhone, more.
British Columbia Innovation Council: Carrotlines Portable Solution Makes Healthy Living Easy, 1 July
This BC entrepreneur knows exactly what she eats because she reads all about it on her iPhone. For as long as she can remember, Portalife Solution Inc.'s founder and CEO, Wahiba Chair, more.
Whole Foods Market: Healthy Eating Made Easy with iPhone App, 26 June
Today Wahiba creator and owner of Carrot Lines was here to promote the new iPhone app to help you learn more about the nutrition in your food. Here’s what Wahiba has to say about her new creation, more.
Business in Vancouver: Vancouver-made iPhone apps give shoppers insights into food chain, 10 June
Vancouver’s PortaLife Solutions Inc. has been a pioneer at this. It has been selling its CarrotLines iPhone application for $2.99 via Apple Inc.’s iTunes store [...] more
New Ventures BC: Round 3's CarrotLines launched iPhone App, 10 June
New Ventures BC Competition Round 3 finalist CarrotLines launched their new iPhone App a couple weeks ago and it’s getting some attention online, more
Radio Canada International: "The Link", SOFTWARE AIDS NUTRITION-MINDED SHOPPERS, 4 June
British Columbia-based businesswoman Wahiba Chair tells us about a new mobile phone application she's developed called Carrotlines that analyses the bar-code lines on food labels to tell consumers if what's in the package is good for them. Tune in [featured as a Top Story]
The Georgia Straight: Geek Speak: Wahiba Chair and CarrotLines, 4 June
A few years ago, Wahiba Chair thought it would be “really cool” if she could use her cellphone to scan the packaging of a food product and quickly get useful information about it. With the release of her barcode-reading application CarrotLines, iPhone users across Canada can do just that. , more
MBA Blog "A Few Good Minds": Wahiba Chair – The Stars of Science and “CarrotLines”, 2 June
Wahiba Chair (SFU MBA ‘08) is nourishing the Vancouver Technology scene with her fantastic new mobile application “CarrotLines“. Wahiba is one of these individuals who has entrepreneurism, more
TechVibes: Vancouver born mobile App will tell you all about your foods , 2 June
CarrotLines provides users with a detailed analysis of food products by scanning an item's bar code. It can then tell you if it's low in fat, if it contains trans-fats, if it has nuts, more
The Epoch Times: New iPhone App Takes The Guesswork Out of Food Shopping, 29 May
Tired of trying to decipher the small print and unpronounceable words on food labels? A new mobile phone application that was developed on a reality TV show takes finding out what’s in a given food product to a whole new level, more
AQ Magazine: "Following their Dreams", Nov 09
Two brilliant young women: one an entrepreneur developing a product to share with the world, more
Financial Post: "The innovator's MBA", Sept 09
Wahiba Chair is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who has merged healthy living with technology, more
CBC Radio Canada: "Early Edition", July 09
Wahiba Chair was invited to chat about her StarsOfScience experience, tune in
The Vancouver Courier: "Kits woman rewarded on Arab reality TV", July 09
Wahiba Chair was featured as a local entrepreneur, more
El Jazeera: "StarsOfScience", July 09
Wahiba Chair speaks up on innovation in the Arab World, view on youtube
SFU Magazine Graduation Issue: "Student stars in Arab reality TV show", June 09
Wahiba Chair just got back from Doha, Qatar, where she spent 10 weeks as one of 16 finalists on the Arab docu-reality, more
CNN International: "StarsOfScience" and Wahiba Chair Contestant Interview, May 09
Wahiba Chair is the only candidate who is selected to speak out on her innovation, view on CNN site
