Several other participants who had lost their jobs wanted to know when and how things would get better.

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So what happens when things get better?

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Technology firms, naturally enough, are desperate to know when things will start to get better.

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He says the trouble is that the moment when things are supposed to get better - that "light" which Mr Monti sees - just seems to keep receding.

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