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{{Infobox_Company |
   name          = Barack Obama|
   company_name  = Panasonic Holdings Corporation|
   image          = [[File:Barack Obama.jpg|300px]]|
   company_logo  = [[File:Panasonic logo.png|300px]]|
   known_for      = 44th President of the United States|
   company_type  = Public|
   birth          = August 4, 1961|
  foundation    = 1918 (Matsushita Electric Industrial)<br />2008 (Panasonic Corporation)<br />2022 (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)|
  location      = Osaka, Japan|
  key_people    = [[Kōnosuke Matsushita]], founder|
  industry      = Electronics|
  products      = Electronics|
   num_employees  = 240,198|
  homepage      = https://www.panasonic.com/|
}}
}}
'''Barack Hussein Obama II''' (born August 4, [[1961]]) is a politician who served as the forty-fourth President of the United States from [[2009]] to [[2017]].
'''Panasonic Holdings Corporation''' is a Japanese multinational conglomerate.


He was previously an Illinois state senator from [[1997]] to [[2004]] before becoming a United States senator representing Illinois from [[2005]] to [[2008]].
==Matsushita Electric Industrial==
'''Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.'' was founded by [[Kōnosuke Matsushita]] in 1918.


He was the first African-American President as well as the first President to have been born outside of the forty-eight contiguous states.  
In May 1985, a consortium of companies led by Matsushita released the 3-inch [[Floppy disk#3-inch CF-2/Compact Floppy Disk|Compact Floppy Disk]], or CF-2.


He was preceded as President by [[George W. Bush]] and was succeeded by [[Donald Trump]].
==Panasonic Corporation==
The name was changed to '''Panasonic Corporation''' in 2008, to match the brand name the company had been using in the United States since 1961 and in Europe since 1979.


==Early life==
==Panasonic Holdings Corporation==
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to an American mother named Ann Dunham and a Kenyan father named Barack Obama Sr.
The name was changed to Panasonic Holdings Corporation in 2022.


He graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[1983]] with a 3.7 grade-point average. He served as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review at Harvard Law School in [[1991]] and graduated from that university later that year with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude.
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[[Category:companies and organizations based in Japan]]
==Use of social media==
During his successful campaign to become U.S. president during the [[2007]] to [[2008]] election cycle, Barack Obama utilized [[social media]] to communicate with the wider public and to mobilize supporters [[internet|online]]. The social media platforms he used included [[Facebook]], [[MySpace]], [[Twitter]], and [[YouTube]].
 
==Appearance in video games==
The likeness of Barack Obama was included in the 2008 [[video game]]s ''[[Mercenaries 2: World in Flames]]'' and ''[[The Political Machine 2008]]'', the [[2010]] video games ''[[Madden NFL 11]]'', ''[[NBA 2K11]]'', and ''[[NBA Jam (2010 video game)|NBA Jam]]'', the [[2011]] video games ''[[Madden NFL 12]]'' and ''[[NBA 2K12]]'', the [[2012]] video games ''[[Madden NFL 12]]'' and ''[[NBA 2K12]]'' and ''[[The Political Machine 2012]]'', the [[2016]] video game ''[[The Political Machine 2016]]'', and the [[2020]] video game ''[[The Political Machine 2020]]''.
 
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[[Category: Politicians]]
[[Category: Presidents of the United States of America]]

Revision as of 17:33, 20 September 2023

Panasonic logo.png
Panasonic Holdings Corporation
Type Public
Founded 1918 (Matsushita Electric Industrial)
2008 (Panasonic Corporation)
2022 (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
Headquarters Osaka, Japan
Key people Kōnosuke Matsushita, founder
Industry Electronics
Products Electronics
Number of people 240,198
Website https://www.panasonic.com/

Panasonic Holdings Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate.

Matsushita Electric Industrial

'Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918.

In May 1985, a consortium of companies led by Matsushita released the 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk, or CF-2.

Panasonic Corporation

The name was changed to Panasonic Corporation in 2008, to match the brand name the company had been using in the United States since 1961 and in Europe since 1979.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

The name was changed to Panasonic Holdings Corporation in 2022.

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