[2] After its founding, Cari grew to become one of the country's top ten web portals, while maintaining tight control over costs.
It received RM2.5 million (US$657,808) in venture capital funding from AKN.com in 2000 in exchange for a 15% stake, which was later transferred to Swansoft Technologies.
The bursting of the dot-com bubble actually aided Cari's cash flow, allowing it to cut advertising spending from RM450,000 in 2000, to just RM50,000 in 2001.
[6] In 2000, Cari Internet had a legal dispute with Catcha.com and considered suing the latter for copyright infringement.
[1] In 2008, Cari Internet was taken to court over postings made in its forum which allegedly defamed a manager of the Malaysian Chinese newspaper Kwong Wah Yit Poh.