How has the recession (2008-2009) affected companies’ balance sheets?

In the IT industry especially the internet had been affected in a positive way by the recession, Because of the advantages that the internet includes. Companies and investors tend to use the internet after the recession to advertise their products and businesses and rise up their revenues. Those advantages include the tremendous number of users that use the internet each year also it reaches a wide range of people and it still less expensive comparing with the other advertising tools. Moreover companies included Information technology in many careers after determining the number of workers in each department.