Tech embraces DC’s ‘nerd prom’

Silicon Valley might profess a distaste for official Washington -- but the tech industry sure is salivating over this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Google, Facebook and Yahoo are planning parties, panels and more around one of Washington’s oldest, most insider institutions. Their presence during the town’s closest approximation of a red carpet reflects the industry’s new embrace of the old ways of doing business in the Beltway -- a place where lobbyists and executives, for better or worse, long have wined and dined their regulators.