Greenpeace protesters have disrupted a petroleum conference being held in Auckland this morning, bursting into a room while Energy Minister Simon Bridges was speaking. About half a dozen women breached tight security and lobbed high pitched noise emitting devices under the seats. They were then bundled out of the room by a team of security staff and unfurled banners disputing Statoil's exploration programme in Northland. The women were dressed in business suits and had apparently faked identification and conference credentials to get into the room.

All Blacks arrive in Johannesburg for the final Rugby Championship clash at Ellis Park and try to acclimatize after their long flight from Argentina.

Kiwis eager to get their hands on the new iPhone 6 and 6+ have queued overnight - and in some cases, for a week online. The highly anticipated phone was officially released in New Zealand at 12.01 this morning. Vodafone stores in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin opened their doors at 12.01am for keen Apple fans. Spark (formerly Telecom) tried something different, allowing customers to pre-book their places in online queues by registering an oversized novelty "emoji" - pictures popularly used in text messages - which are printed off and hold their space in the queue.

This video supplied by Reviveaphone documents the insane project of a man traveling halfway around the world to get the first iPhone 6 and then dump it in a pitcher of beer.

Herald property editor Anne Gibson talks to Graham Darlow, chief executive of Fletcher Construction about its $2b order book.

APN, the company which owns the New Zealand Herald, is to relaunch as part of a new brand, NZME. APN, The Radio Network and GrabOne, are unifying their print, radio, digital and e-commerce brands under New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

NZ tourism has released a new video as part of a new campaign encouraging young visitors to try five extreme activities within a day. Watch adventurer Chuck Berry try them out in just one hour.

This time lapse video shows the interior of a Qatar Airways A380 superjumbo being installed

John Dalzell is chief executive of Waterfront Auckland, a council-controlled organisation whose biggest project is revitalising the western area at the Wynyard Quarter.

Mood of the Boardroom 2014 has been presented and Anne Gibson and Jamie Gray get CEO reaction and we hear from the two finance spokesmen David Parker and Bill English.

New Zealand Herald journalist Grant Bradley finds out how giant Royal Caribbean cruise ships are built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.

This morning the Business Herald has has re-launched its homepage with a host of new features and content to keep you better informed. We’ll continue to bring you comprehensive news and the best business analysis but we’ve added tools which allow you check stock prices, get latest currency rates, compare mortgage and savings rates and pick the best KiwiSaver fund for you. We’ve also built a company search engine to allow you to better search our huge archive of stories and commentary dating back over a decade.

Air New Zealand's last jumbo jet, the Boeing 747 is about to leave New Zealand this week. This video gives us insight into the history and legacy of this mighty aircraft, and a final goodbye from the airline as it is replaced by the much newer and more efficient 787 Dreamliner

New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart has launched his new superyacht called Ulysses in Norway.

Anne Gibson interviews Phil Twyford who is Labour’s spokesman on Auckland, housing, transport and associate spokesman on the environment.

Murray Jordan, CEO Foodstuffs, NZ’s biggest supermarket business with New World, Four Square, Pak n Save and other brands.

A behind the scenes glimpse into the making of Emirates’ 50th A380 aircraft. It takes 800 workers just 65 to 80 days to assemble, install, test, paint, furnish and deliver an Emirates Airbus A380, the iconic double-decker aircraft that first entered Emirates service in 2008. Video supplied by Emirates.

Pop Up Now - see here how a demonstration of how working store can be 'popped up' and operational within 10 minutes.

Prime Minister John Key is on the election campaign trail and gives his update on the NZ economy.

A new geothermal and ground water laboratory recently opened at GNS Science near Taupo will be the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

Herald aviation writer Grant Bradley flew into Auckland yesterday on the world's newest commercial big jet - the A350XWB. See inside the plane and hear from its pilots here.

TVNZ has joined Sky TV in banning Slingshot's latest ads promoting the ISP's 'Global Mode service.'

Kiwi owns Sylvia Park, ASB North Wharf, Vero Centre on Shortland St (tallest office block in NZ), Centre Place Hamilton and the rundown LynnMall shopping centre out west which it’s going to do up.

Shamubeel Eaqub is the principal economist at the NZ Institute of Economic Research and has just written the book Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand

Simon Moutter today hoists a new flag up Telecom's mast, marking its tack away from two decades as New Zealand's safe and stodgy telecommunications provider. For the managing director, it's a signal of the company's new direction, towards a bright digital horizon of revenue growth and new services such as internet television.

NZ company Rocket Lab hopes to launch a locally-based space programme, with its low-cost method of launching satellites.

The New Zealand Herald tour through the Boeing factory near Seattle, Washington, USA where the new Air New Zealand 787-9 Dreamliner was built.

Scott Pritchard, CEO of Precinct Properties, which owns the Downtown Shopping Centre site in Auckland where consent was granted to previous owner Westfield NZ for a 41-level tower.

Connal Townsend, CEO Property Council of NZ which represents major commercial, industrial and retail landlords.