Non-controlling Interests

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

The non-controlling interests’ share of equity in VMware is reflected as a component of the non-controlling interests in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and was $1,450 million and $1,524 million as of March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. At March 31, 2015, EMC held approximately 97% of the combined voting power of VMware’s outstanding common stock and approximately 81% of the economic interest in VMware.

The effect of changes in our ownership interest in VMware on our equity was as follows (table in millions):



	For the Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2015			March 31, 2014
Net income attributable to EMC Corporation	$	252		$	392
Transfers (to) from the non-controlling interest in VMware, Inc.:
Increase in EMC Corporation’s additional paid-in-capital for VMware’s equity issuances	30			47
Decrease in EMC Corporation’s additional paid-in-capital for VMware’s other equity activity	(331		)	(171		)
Net transfers (to) from non-controlling interest	(301		)	(124		)
Change from net income attributable to EMC Corporation and transfers from the non-controlling interest in VMware, Inc.	$	(49	)	$	268

The non-controlling interests’ share of equity in Pivotal is reflected as a component of the non-controlling interests in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as $105 million at both March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. At March 31, 2015, EMC consolidated held approximately 84% of the economic interest in Pivotal. General Electric Company’s (“GE”) interest in Pivotal is in the form of a preferred equity instrument. Consequently, there is no net income attributable to non-controlling interest related to Pivotal on the consolidated income statements. Additionally, due to the terms of the preferred instrument, GE’s non-controlling interest on the consolidated balance sheets is generally not impacted by Pivotal’s equity related activity. The preferred equity instrument is convertible into common shares at GE’s election at any time.

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The entire disclosure for noncontrolling interest in consolidated subsidiaries, which could include the name of the subsidiary, the ownership percentage held by the parent, the ownership percentage held by the noncontrolling owners, the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the location of this amount on the balance sheet (when not reported separately), an explanation of the increase or decrease in the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the noncontrolling interest share of the net Income or Loss of the subsidiary, the location of this amount on the income statement (when not reported separately), the nature of the noncontrolling interest such as background information and terms, the amount of the noncontrolling interest represented by preferred stock, a description of the preferred stock, and the dividend requirements of the preferred stock.

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