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Cognizant Technology Solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions

IT Services and Consulting Corporation

Appears in 3 stories · Last updated Nov 7, 2026

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Cognizant acquires Wizeline to add AI engineering and media clients

Money Moves

Acquirer

Cognizant closed its purchase of Wizeline on November 6, adding an AI-focused product engineering firm with about 2,000 employees and clients in media, financial services, and health care. The companies did not disclose the price.

Updated 4 days ago

The end of the H-1B lottery

Rule Changes

Major H-1B user; sued in Disney case

The wage-weighted H-1B selection rule took effect February 27, 2026, replacing the random lottery. The first registration period under it ran March 4โ€“19. Under the new system, a worker offered a Level IV wage (the top tier) gets four entries in the selection pool; a Level I worker gets one. The rule was designed to curb the duplicate-registration fraud that inflated FY 2024 submissions to 758,994 for 85,000 slots.

Updated Oct 16

AI tools threaten the consulting firms that keep decades-old software running

New Capabilities

As of May 2026: Stock declined 6.6% on February 23; exposed to legacy modernization disruption

An estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code still run in production every day, processing 95% of ATM transactions and roughly $3 trillion in daily commerce. For decades, understanding and modernizing that code has required large teams of specialized consultants working for months or years. On February 23, Anthropic published a playbook showing how Claude Code can automate these labor-intensive tasksโ€”mapping dependencies, documenting workflows, identifying risks across thousands of files.

Updated May 29