PROVIDENCE - Lee Hower lived the quintessential Internet start-up life as an early employee at PayPal and part of the founding team of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. But three years ago, Hower left Silicon Valley's heady entrepreneurial scene for what might seem the outer reaches of the tech universe. (Full article: 1033 words)

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