Join Colorado State University-Global Campus and the Colorado Business Roundtable for "Cybersecurity Threats in the Future: What every organizational leader needs to know." The event will be Tuesday, October 30 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am at History Colorado Center.

Colorado voters will be asked to consider a lot of issues and candidates on the November Ballot, but the interaction of just three of those measures - a sales-tax hike to fund transportation, a bond sale to fund transportation and  an income-tax hike to fund education - could determine the near-term fate of the state's overcrowded highway system. State residents will be asked first of all to approve two separate transportation initiatives, Proposition 109, written by the Independence Institute, would allow for the sale of the $3.5 billion in bonds for state highways and require the Legislature to set aside $350 million from the general fund annually to repay the bonds. Proposition 110, written by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and a group of allies, would raise statewide sales taxes by 0.62 cents for a 20-year period to fund a $6 billion bond sale and raise roughly $9.8 billion over that time period for local roadways and $3.2 billion for multi-model projects. 

SendGrid, the Denver-based software maker that accounts for about 2 percent of the world's wanted email, has been acquired by Twilio for $2 billion, the companies announced Monday. San Francisco-based Twilio makes software for secure messaging platforms. SendGrid sends mass emails for clients, like AirBnB and Uber, and has since expanded to offer more email marketing services. 

Bob Troyer, the outgoing U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, told Denver Business Journal last week that he hopes that business leaders become more engaged on the potential consequences of marijuana legalization in Colorado. "It's very important for business leaders in Colorado to start getting educated about commercialized marijuana in this state because their leadership on business health and safety topics is as important to the state as the political leadership and I think it's important for these caregivers of the state economy to be engaged on this issue," Troyer said. 

United Launch Alliance put a massive defense communications satellite into orbit overnight Wednesday, launching a $1.8 billion project made by Lockheed Martin Space. The Centennial-based company's Atlas V rocket blasted off just after midnight carrying the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency 4 satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 197-foot-tall rocket launched the satellite into a low orbit, where the Centaur second stage propelled AEHF-4 on a four-hour journey to its final orbit 22,300 miles above the planet.